Vhbs

VHBS — Association of Hamburg and Bremen Shipbrokers (Verband Hamburger und Bremer Schiffsmakler e.V.) — Daily container ship time-charter rate assessment panel (New ConTex): broker panellist assessments in USD per day for ship classes 1,100 / 1,700 / 1,800 / 2,500 / 2,700 / 3,500 / 4,250 / 5,700 / 6,500 TEU across 6-, 12- and 24-month tenors, geared and gearless, plus the composite ConTex points index and a wider set of supplementary tenor assessments excluded from the headline calculation.. Micro-scale institution (~3 staff, Hamburg) with outsized benchmark authority: roughly 78,000 rate ob…

Vhbs offers (Alternative, Price, Supply Chain) — ~4,900 assessment dates (daily prints since October 2007) × up to 16 assessed class/tenor columns ≈ 78,000 individual rate observations, plus per-class ship-type specification documents. Each print is a panellist consensus, so the underlying un-published panellist submissions are several times larger..

Container charter-rate benchmarking and freight-derivative settlement reference, feeder and mid-size container earnings models, charterparty counterparty pricing, shipping equity and credit earnings sensitivity models, container freight cost nowcasting for consumer-price and supply-chain models, and backtesting freight forecasts against a 19-year daily series.

The data is with 19 years of history.

Coverage spans Other, Europe, US, China/HK, APAC, Japan; Marine Shipping; alternative, price, supply_chain; derivatives, equities, fixed_income, structured_products.