Routes & Markets
Guide to major shipping routes and freight markets -- trade lanes, port guides, and market analysis for dry bulk shipping.
Asia-Europe Dry Bulk Route
How dry bulk moves between Europe and Asia: Suez versus Cape routing, the eastbound grain and scrap flow, and the thin westbound leg.
ExploreBaltic Freight Market
What the Baltic freight market is: how the Baltic Exchange assesses dry bulk routes, how the Baltic Dry Index and its component indices are built, and what the BDI signals.
Major Dry Bulk Ports Guide
A guide to the world's major dry bulk ports and terminals: the iron ore, coal and grain gateways that anchor the seaborne bulk trades, with main cargoes and the vessel classes each can load.
Middle East Dry Bulk Route
How dry bulk moves on the Arabian Gulf corridor: fertilizer, cement and clinker exports, grain and coal imports, vessel classes, ports and chokepoints.
Shipping Rate Calculator
Estimate bulk shipping rates -- use our calculator to get indicative freight costs for your cargo and route.
Caribbean Dry Bulk Route
How dry bulk moves through the Caribbean: a smaller regional multi-cargo corridor of pet coke, bauxite, sugar and grain shaped by the Panama Canal.
South America Dry Bulk Route
How dry bulk moves on the South America corridor: Brazil iron ore to China and South American grain and soybeans to China and Europe.
Transatlantic Dry Bulk Route
How dry bulk moves across the Atlantic basin: balanced two-way grain, coal, pet coke and fertilizer flows, the load and discharge ports, and the chokepoints.
Transpacific Dry Bulk Route
The Pacific basin dry bulk corridor: Australia, Indonesia and US Pacific Northwest origins to China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan, by cargo and vessel class.
West Africa Dry Bulk Route
How dry bulk moves on the West Africa corridor: Guinea bauxite to China on Capesize and VLOC tonnage around the Cape of Good Hope.