Dry Bulk Sector

Dry Shipping Planning Service (DSPS)

MSI's Dry Shipping Planning Service (DSPS) model is a fully interactive menu-driven modelling system for the dry bulk market. It is a highly effective support tool for quantifying market exposure, whether as a risk taker or capital provider, and comprises:

• A platform to access easily and quickly historic and forecasted data for over 2000 key dry bulk market annual timeseries
• A powerful analysis and simulation tool that enables the use of alternative assumptions to test market sensitivities and primary risks by modifying a wide range of macroeconomic, supply and demand inputs
• Evaluation of specific vessel cash flows, NPV, IRR and payback against both MSI and user-generated market scenarios

The DSPS model provides historical and forecast annual time-series data from 1980 to 2020 for:

• Macroeconomic and commodity price indicators
• Regional commodity consumption, production and stock changes
• Cargo volumes and deadweight demand by vessel size segment for 36 iron ore, 28 coal, 32 grain and 36 minor bulk bilateral trades
• Sector-specific fleet supply by size and age
• Explicit scrapping, cancellation and slippage assumptions
• Employment rates (fleet utilisation)
• Timecharter rates by segment
• Newbuild, secondhand (by age) and scrap prices by segment

DSPS is written on a Microsoft Excel® platform, and updates containing MSI's latest forecasts are distributed quarterly via an easily installable Microsoft Windows® installation package to coincide with the release of our quarterly DSPS market report. It is available as an annual subscription containing four updates a year, distributed via email.

Please contact us to arrange an online demonstration.