Kiev Shipping Ltd
Insights: Ship Chartering from Asia
Professional insights from Kiev Shipping Ltd on ship chartering, maritime brokerage, freight indications, project cargo, breakbulk, dry bulk, tanker chartering, vessel employment and commercial ship management.
Articles
Stowage Factor and Cargo Reference for Dry Bulk Chartering
A practical reference to indicative stowage factors for grain, oilseed meals, fertilizers, coal, ores, cement, salt and other dry bulk cargoes, including an example of when a shipment is deadweight-limited and when it is cubic-limited.
Project Cargo, Breakbulk and Dry Bulk Chartering by Kiev Shipping Ltd
How to tell which sector a cargo belongs to, what decides the vessel in dry bulk, breakbulk, project cargo and liquid bulk, and where the detail on each sits.
Ro-Ro, Conventional Breakbulk or Vessel Chartering for Electric Bus Shipments?
How to assess Ro-Ro, conventional breakbulk and vessel chartering for electric bus shipments from China to Europe, including unit dimensions, securing requirements, battery documentation and port restrictions.
Transformer Cargo Chartering: Choosing the Right Vessel for Heavy Project Shipments
Concentrated weight, shock sensitivity and accessories shipped alongside: how a transformer shapes the vessel search, the lift, the ports and the freight.
Commercial Ship Management: Voyage Estimation Before Fixing a Cargo
A worked voyage estimate from freight to time charter equivalent, and the two inputs — vessel position and port time — that move the answer by a third.
Bulk Cargo Chartering: Vessel Sizes, Draft and Port Restrictions
Which bulk carrier suits the parcel: the size classes and what each is for, geared against gearless, how permissible draft converts into tonnes, and parcel size.
Freight Indication vs Firm Freight Offer: What Charterers Should Know
What an indication commits and what a firm offer commits, how each is built, why indications move, and what has to be settled before the market can be asked for a price.
Grain Cargo Chartering: Vessel Selection and Port Restrictions
The Grain Code and the document the ship must hold, test weight and stowage factor, grain-clean holds, fumigation in transit, ventilation and draft surveys.
Heavy Machinery Shipping by Sea: What to Check Before Fixing
Machinery arrives at the quay in a different condition from the enquiry. The ten checks that remove the surprises before a vessel is fixed.
How Shipowners Can Improve Vessel Employment
Idle days and ballast days are where a year of employment is lost. Triangulation, backhauls, laycan width, spot against period, and being a ship the market puts forward.
Tanker Chartering: Vessel Selection for CPP, DPP and Liquid Chemical Cargoes
Tank coating, IMO ship type, previous cargoes, segregation, heating and terminal limits — the order in which tanker candidates are eliminated, long before price.
Tanker Chartering: What Information Is Needed Before Requesting Freight
What a tanker enquiry has to contain, how tanker freight is quoted on Worldscale, lumpsum or per tonne, how laytime works, and why vetting sets the timeline.
Ship Chartering: From Enquiry to Fixture
What happens between "we have a cargo" and "the ship is fixed": the stages of a voyage fixture, who moves at each one and how long each one takes.
Breakbulk and Project Cargo: Why Planning Starts Before the Vessel Is Fixed
The five documents a project enquiry stands on, what the vessel contributes, what to check ashore, and the three information gaps that cost the most.
Commercial Ship Management for Shipowners
What commercial management covers next to technical management, where the owner's authority stays, how it is paid for, and the three situations where it is worth having.
Dry Bulk Cargo: Why Cargo Characteristics Matter
IMSBC groups, moisture and liquefaction, density, hold cleanliness standards and ventilation: the cargo properties that decide which bulk carrier can be offered.
Ship Chartering: Why the Freight Rate Is Not Enough
Two offers on the same cargo, followed to the end of the voyage: why the cheaper freight finished USD 64,000 more expensive, and how to compare on landed cost.
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