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How Timeseries is Turning Maritime Data into Successful Market Decisions
Today’s shipping market is always evolving, from geopolitical tensions to sustainability initiatives, making it critical that stakeholders can effectively organize the high influx of maritime data. Timeseries equips owner-operators, financiers, and brokers with the real time and historical data they need to derive actionable insights and stay ahead of this ever-changing landscape.
Drawing on the collective data within the VesselsValue platform, we have produced over 3,000 chart configurations, including projected earnings, S&P transactions, vessel market values, and more. Within the platform, you can visualize the data most relevant for your business needs through creating custom charts, empowering you to research market trends, make informed decisions, and analyze long-term trends and correlations.
Here’s how owner-operators, financiers, and brokers can leverage Timeseries in both their day-to-day and long-term analyses:
Consume market knowledge at scale with advanced visualization
Timeseries allows maritime professionals to customize an unlimited number of charts from more than 3,000 different configurations. We offer standard datasets on ships and bunkers, spot and period time charters, indices, pricing data, operating expenses (OPEX), and fuel spreads, with the option for users to expand their scope with fixed age values and data from our fleet and deals databases.
With ‘Presets,’ users can access key market overviews, such as bunker prices, demolition prices, fleet values, spot and period TC rates, and S&P transaction counts and sizes.
How it works:
To create a chart from scratch, users can browse datasets via hierarchy groups or by using the search bar. The data is categorized by ship type and defaults to cargo, passenger, offshore, bunker prices, and currency.
Users can add and remove an unlimited number of series to a chart.
In the clip below, you’ll see how you can further customize the chart to your liking such as editing the headlines, determining the axis, and specifying the time frame:
Expand market transparency by aligning coinciding factors
Users can expand their data package by adding modules, such as generic valuation data, spot TC data from The Baltic Exchange, or data from our fleet or deals database products.
For example, shipowners and operators interested in visualizing market trends can plot matrix values across specific time periods. Brokers interested in fleet growth development can aggregate data from Deals Database and our green features to monitor the cyclical nature of the market and assess the current state of global supply and demand.
Additionally, financiers interested in orderbook development can highlight underdeveloped sectors where demand may increase in coming years. When comparing TC rate development to real world events, financiers can also use this data to enhance their forward-looking predictions.
Expanding your market view can help you develop an active, holistic approach to understanding the biggest market drivers and determining your next business opportunity. With access to multiple data streams, you can also determine correlations across the market, further improving your market predictions and ability to navigate potential risks.
Make data-driven decisions and mitigate risks with a matrix of historical insights
Owner-operators, financiers, and brokers need comprehensive historical insights to accurately assess their investment options. Given today’s evolving market landscape, it’s critical that shipping companies have all the tools they need to maintain confidence in their decisions while effectively navigating risks.
To ensure alignment across the business, Timeseries empowers organizations to share and collaborate on datasets through APIs with other VesselsValue products and through its sharing functionality. In the share settings, users can keep their charts private or share them with anyone at their organization to collaborate on the VesselsValue platform:
Users can also export up to 10 series per day across the following formats: CSV, XLSX (includes a pre-built excel chart), or as an image (PNG). For example, if a user exports two charts—one with six series and one with four series—then this will use up the entire day’s amount.
This feature can help your team strengthen its market analysis by comparing our data with your own. By exporting via our pre-built excel charts, you can load the data into your internal platforms and streamline report creation.
Maritime professionals are under increased pressure to grow their assets while navigating today’s compounding complexity. Timeseries offers an in-depth view of previous insights, helping you strengthen your market knowledge, identify market trends, and improve your market predictions.
The solution’s self-service functionality is easy to use, helping you derive your own analyses and make the case for your next investment. The current state of the market moves quickly, so the faster you can advise stakeholders on their next move to take, the better for the business.
Interested in expanding your datasets or just getting started? Talk to our team to learn how Timeseries can best support your business and market research needs.