Ask the Analyst – investigations for legal / insurance customers

Our Investigations team can be contacted for information within the following fields:

• Investigations into ownership of companies
• Investigations into corporate structures
• Investigations into finances of companies, especially assets that can be attached
• Investigations of persons
• Investigations of vessels with regard to ownership, employment, movement history, casualties and much more
• Vessel tracking which will give detailed information about ETAs and thus will facilitate arrest
• Provision of AIS data, where available, which can be used in collision cases and other cases
• Due diligence work within the maritime and energy sectors

Ask the Analyst – finance & credit customers

Our team can be contacted for information within the following fields:

• How many vessels a company owns/operates
• When a company purchased its vessels
• How a company’s vessels are deployed
• Details on a company’s new building programme
• Whether a company is a contractual party for marine supplies
• The role of a company within a wider group structure
• The recent payment performance of a company
• Lloyd’s List Intelligence’s credit rating on a company

Ask the Analyst – tankers

Our team of specialist analysts and consultants are here to provide you with business critical analysis covering:

• Latest trends in global and regional oil supply and tanker deployment and their key underlying drivers
• Detailed analysis of latest changes in oil flows at global, regional and local level
• OPEC compliance based on observation and analysis of actual seaborne export volumes
• Changes in the relative importance of individual crude oil import and export markets
• Tanker fleet deployment profiling by trade route and vessel size range
• Fleet activity status analysis covering laden, ballast, storage, oil on the water by sector, operator and location
• Competitor analysis by charterer, vessel owner , vessel size range and trade route
• Freight Rate analysis by trade route, charterer and sector

Other shipping sectors

Our team of specialist analysts and consultants are here to provide you with analysis by market sector covering:

• Fleet supply analysis – Live Fleet, orderbook, demolition.
• Fleet Deployment analysis at key load and discharge ports
• Desk research and analysis of key market drivers and trends
• Supply/Demand analysis – Trends and Forecasts
• Supply Demand drivers for individual markets and trade routes
• Freight Rate analysis and forecasts
• Analysis of emerging market trends and their drivers