The Maritime Intelligence Experts
Independent market forecasting and strategic consultancy for global shipping and offshore markets
Over 40 Years of Leading Independent Market Insight
From market analysis and risk evaluation to investment decision support and consultancy, Maritime Strategies International (MSI) offers independent market forecasting and business consultancy services for shipping, offshore, maritime infrastructure and allied industries.
For over 40 years, MSI has developed integrated relationships with a diverse global client base including financial institutions, ship owners, shipyards, brokers, investors, insurers, classification societies, regulators and accountants along with equipment and service providers.
MSI's deep-seated expertise covers all shipping and offshore sectors providing clients with a combination of sector reports, forecasting models, vessel valuations and bespoke consultancy services.
MSI's analysis, including reports, models, valuation services and vessel environmental credentials is delivered to clients through our online data and forecasting platform 'MSI HORIZON’. All data from the platform is also available through MSI’s API service https://api.msiltd.com.
In addition, cross-sector model forecast simulations can be run for sector models fully embedded into the platform. The below video demonstrates some of the capabilities of MSI Horizon.
MSI SEASCAPE is a vessel / fleet benchmarking tool, covering operations, emissions, asset values and investment returns. There are two main uses for the platform, first benchmarking a selected fleet or vessel performance against cohort vessels/competitors and second an evaluation tool for new investments.
Register for MSI Seascape What Our Clients Say
“MSI is an extremely professional outfit, providing high quality, detailed analysis, forecasts and insight to the market.”
Head of Research — Global Diversified Shipowner
“I really appreciated our conversation and thought MSI's perspective and insight on the market was, frankly, better than anyone else we spoke with.”
Partner — Leading Private Equity Firm
“MSI have proven to be unbiased, accurate and consistent in their methodology when it comes to making sense of the underlying drivers in the marine space. Their forecasting service has aided me in evaluating asset-based shipping deals from a risk-reward perspective.”
Head of Marine Business Risks — Major US Bank
“We have worked with MSI on a number of large multibillion-dollar shipping restructuring projects. MSI provided us with deep insight and analysis of the shipping markets and company specific trading performance which was critical to the assessment of their restructuring plans. I have been impressed with the breadth and depth of MSI's shipping market data and knowledge and also with their commercial and pragmatic approach to doing business.”
Partner — Leading Accounting and Business Advisory Firm
Sectors
As the maritime industry adopts new technologies and fuels in a bid to reduce emissions and meet regulatory requirements, MSI is able to support clients with data, forecasts and insight in order to help them better understand the implications of the transition and to answer both operational and strategic questions.
MSI’s Environmental Credentials product enables users to understand the performance of individual vessels and fleets against regulatory and market benchmarks, as well as those of their competitors or a wider cohort.
Environmental Credentials assessments are provided for individual ships as an add-on to MSI’s Fair Market eValuator (FMV) reports - providing estimated ratings against the IMO’s EEXI and CII regulations to 2026, indicative Annual Efficiency Ratings (AER) for each year since 2019 and evaluations against the Poseidon Principle and Zero Emissions by 2050 trajectories.
Not only can individual vessels be run through the platform but also fleets or portfolios, with the aggregate position calculated alongside individual vessels.
MSI can also provide explicit forecasts for the fleetwide adoption of fuel types by sector and vessel size along with both earnings and value forecasts for vessels with dual fuel LNG, LPG, methanol and ammonia engines based on explicit CAPEX, fuel price and carbon pricing assumptions.
The evolving patterns of trade for alternative fuels and the cost to ship these fuels alongside an assessment of the availability of tonnage to meet a charterers or shippers own emissions objectives are also areas MSI’s consultancy team are able to support its client base, across the planning and strategic consultancy landscape, with results supported by robust modelling frameworks.
In addition, MSI are able to partner with engineering consultants in order to offer a holistic solution providing both technical and commercial market modelling along with asset value and earnings forecasts for specific vessels. A typical vessel assessment report covers the following, but can be further adapted to meet the clients’ specific needs or requirements:
- Vessel Overview
- Market Overview
- Historical vessel deployment patterns
- Vessel estimated emissions and alignment with market and regulatory measures
- Vessel emissions cohort analysis and benchmarking
- Base case earnings and value forecasts
- Technical vessel assessment and potential Energy Saving Technology retrofit options
- CAPEX implications
- Vessel recommendation – fuel consumption, emissions and potential reductions
- Retrofit earnings and value forecasts (Base Case and scenario analysis)
- Other considerations e.g., trading limitations, charterers preference
Further Information
Contact: decarbonisation@msiltd.com
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