Crude oil, natural gas and coal shipments on the water directly affect supply and local market prices. So advance warnings and insight into the real flows can enable you to manage your costs and find new commodity trading opportunities.
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Benefits
Gain the advantage. Platts cTrack enables you to see how much tonnage of a commodity is being transported into or out of a zone. It shows you it all, as it happens; so you can spot supply shifts early and gain from them.
Find competitive opportunities that emerge from other traders’ decisions to ship a commodity from one place to another. Gain from trade-flow anomalies.
Know where your ships are and where your competitors’ tankers are going. cTrack not only displays this information in an easy to track map view, it also gives you tools to analyze and assess supply flows. Combine this with Platts’ price data and ship fixtures; define your own fleets and regions and you’ll be able to produce customised reporting that matches your structure and operations exactly.
It’s a unique product offering you a unique view. No other similarly competitive product has been designed to meet the needs of commodity traders and analysts as cTrack does. Valuable features that make cTrack convenient and easy to work with include: reports, alerts, transport zones and user-defined tanker fleets.
Features
- Comprehensive global coverage: over 30,000 ships and tankers tracked carrying commodities like crude oil, natural gas, LNG or coal
- Historical data and pricing back to January 2010
- Near real-time ship positions updated hourly
- Reports on port-to-port tanker movements, gross tonnage flows
- Alerts and notifications sent to your email
- Intuitive and comprehensive transport data search filters
- User-definable tanker fleets (private to your company)
- User-definable regions (private to your company) for reporting net flows or ship movements
- Notes on ships or world zones shared within your company (private to your company)
- Accessible anywhere you have an internet connection
cTrack is the perfect fundamental analysis tool for traders and analysts of crude oil, coal, LNG and natural gas.
- Comprehensive world coverage: over 30,000 ships and tankers tracked
- Historical data and pricing back to January 2010
- Near real-time ship positions updated hourly
- Platts bunker price assessments for key transport ports and hubs
- Platts tanker freight rates for key global routes and zones
- Platts ship fixtures for clean and dirty tankers and coal carriers
- Reports on port-to-port ship movements, gross tonnage flows
- Alerts and notifications sent to your email near real-time
Purchase and Delivery Options
Costs
For more information about the price of this product please contact your nearest Platts office. Many clients purchase multiple subscriptions to ensure their entire staff has access to Platts’ information. We can work with you to ensure that we appropriately license your staff and put in place the correct discount levels as well as ensure that our distribution methods meet your specific needs.
Basic Delivery
You can receive cTrack on your PC (with 4GB of RAM) via the internet on a Microsoft® Internet Explorer browser version 7 or higher.