VesselsValue
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VesselsValue is a maritime data company that provides automated vessel valuations and market data, updated daily and delivered through an online platform, API feeds, and reports. Its coverage spans vessel values, trading activity, maps, trade flows, energy efficiency metrics, and forecasting for the shipping market.[1]
The company, legally VesselsValue Ltd, is part of maritime software group Veson Nautical, which acquired it and now lists VesselsValue as a product alongside its IMOS platform.[1][2]
What It Does
VesselsValue aims to make maritime markets transparent by providing what it describes as unbiased vessel values and data that are algorithm driven and updated daily. The platform covers market values, newbuild values, demolition values, discounted cash flow values, and forecast market values for vessels, alongside demand charts, heatmaps, and trading information.[1]
Data and Methodology
The company states that its valuations and trading information are automated and frequently tested, cleaned, and improved, combining a data-driven approach with market expertise from its analyst teams. Valuation outputs include market, newbuild, demolition, DCF, and forecast values, with fixed-age value charts and market-level analytics.[1]
Products
Product modules listed on the company's website include Value (vessel valuations), Database, Map, Trade, Energy Efficiency, Forecasting, Reports, and API Services. The platform covers a range of asset classes across the shipping market, which the company details on its assets-we-cover page.[1]
Delivery and Pricing
Data is delivered through online platform access on desktop, mobile, or the company's official app, with data export available; through an API data feed designed to integrate with clients' existing systems; and through a catalogue of ready-made and bespoke reports. Pricing information is published on the site's pricing page, with access by demo request and subscription.[1]
Buyers and Use Cases
VesselsValue organizes its solutions by industry, targeting lenders and investors, shipowners, managers and brokers, cargo owners and traders, governmental and regulatory bodies, professional services firms, shipyards and suppliers, and underwriters and insurance brokers. Its website displays client logos including Citi, BNP Paribas, PwC, EY, and BP.[1]
Typical uses include portfolio and collateral valuation for ship finance, market timing for purchases and sales, trade flow analysis, and risk assessment for insurance.[1]
History
VesselsValue Ltd's website copyright dates its online presence to 2010. Maritime software group Veson Nautical acquired the company, and its corporate timeline records the acquisition, describing VesselsValue as "a leading source of maritime vessel valuations and market perspective."[1][2]
Landscape
Within Veson Nautical, VesselsValue sits alongside products such as the IMOS voyage management platform, Shipfix, Q88, and Oceanbolt, a maritime data intelligence platform for bulk commodities acquired by Veson. It competes with other providers of vessel valuations and shipping market analytics, including Sea-Intelligence in container shipping analysis and Windward in vessel behavior data.[2]