Asbatbp

ASBA Tanker Broker Panel, L.L.C. (ASBATBP) — Anonymous, arms'-length tanker market rate quotations produced by a standing panel of established US tanker brokerage firms who are ASBA members bound to its Code of Ethics. Created specifically to give an independent, non-conflicted reference for the charge on oil cargo movements, the output is a daily assessment series built from broker submissions rather than from AIS inference or modelled rates. The byproduct asset is not only the published rates but the panel mechanism itself: decades of anonymised member quotations, lane by lane, with the pan…

Asbatbp offers (Price, Alternative, Reference, Supply Chain) — Modest in rows, exceptional in span: every trading day since 9 February 1993 across the panel's covered tanker lanes — of order 8,000+ quotation days across a limited lane/class matrix, i.e. tens of thousands of dated rate observations spanning more than three decades.

Long-run tanker freight backtesting on a genuinely independent US panel series predating today's dominant assessment agencies; tanker earnings-cycle and asset-value research across three decades; freight hedging and FFA curve studies needing a non-conflicted reference; antitrust and market-conduct research on how independent rate panels are governed; contract and damages disputes requiring an arms'-length historical charge for oil cargo movements; and training data for freight-forecast models that need a pre-2010 regime absent from newer vendors.

The data is with 33 years of history.

Coverage spans US; Marine Transportation; price, alternative, reference, supply_chain; commodities, freight_derivatives, equities.