Harper Petersen & Co.

Harper Petersen & Co. — Proprietary weekly fixture-level charter-rate panel and asset-value indices for container ships (HARPEX), plus parallel tanker, bulker and sale & purchase series — vessel class, TEU size, tenor (6/12/24 months), gear type and assessed US$ rate per weekly print.. Small boutique (13 staff, Hamburg) holding an outsized niche benchmark: ~1,300 weekly prints × 9+ vessel classes over 25 years, with the unpublished fixture log as the real asset. High value per data point, low headcount.. Use cases: Freight-rate forecasting and charter pricing models, shipping equity research …

Harper Petersen & Co. offers (Alternative, Supply Chain, Price) — ~35,000 rate observations (est.): ~1,300 weekly prints since 2001 × ~9 container vessel classes, plus comparable tanker/bulker/S&P series — likely 100K+ rows including tenor and route cuts. Underlying fixture log is larger than the published index..

Freight-rate forecasting and charter pricing models, shipping equity research and earnings models, container-cost inflation nowcasting (Fed/OECD/Eurostat usage), supply-chain cost attribution, freight derivative and charter counterparty valuation, asset-backed vessel valuation.

The data is with 25 years of history.

Coverage spans US, UK, Japan, Europe, Other; Marine Shipping; alternative, supply_chain, price; equities, derivatives, structured_products.