Optimizing Seaborne Trade, Transport and Transactions

We collaborate hand-in-hand with clients, proposing creative and cost-effective solutions for some of today’s most demanding logistical challenges in commercial seaborne trade and transport. Our singular vantage point and innovative approach is informed by an unrivaled depth of internal expertise combined with our unique ability to nurture and leverage strategic relationships worldwide.

Custom Market Intelligence

Get a customized top line view of maritime opportunities with objective intel to help guide your planning and support your decision-making. McQuilling not only custom-filters reporting through the factors and formats that suit you best, but also has various standard analyses available on demand. These include spot market fixture activity, vessel asset prices, tanker freight rates and other relevant data.

Custom Analysis, Consultancy and Advisory Services

Count on McQuilling to provide bespoke advisory services that help elevate your maritime endeavors to the next level of precision, accuracy and success.

A sampling of our clients who have benefited from these services include shipping and manufacturing companies, major chemical carrier companies, major oil companies, alternative energy organizations, investors, terminal facilities, barge facilities, ship building and ship repair companies worldwide.

Strategic McQuilling Consultancy & Advisory Services include…

Commercial Projects:
Dry dock, locks, ship repair initiatives, and storage. Offshore projects including renewable technologies such as wind farms, and recycling.
Directed Research:
Historical analysis and forecasting for shipping, commodities and associated markets.
McQuiLink Capital:
Refinancing, new acquisitions, joint ventures, buyouts, and construction.
Carbon Advisory:
Carbon credits, compliance, sustainability and educational resources and advisory. Read more
Bespoke Projects Advisory:
Real-time data and the systematic application of predictive analytics help you make more timely and effective decisions. We provide the calm and confidence for ingenious blue-sky thinking.
The Synergy of Interpretive Reporting in Concert with Objective Data
Put the power of our global reach, professional expertise and objective real-time information to your benefit. Leverage the advantage of having unprecedented access to a diverse range of analytical and statistical reports to help guide your mission-critical business decisions.

Management Consulting

  • Strategy Planning
  • Organizational Design
  • Business Plan Development
  • Work Processes Analysis
  • Fleet Coverage Advisory
  • Fleet Renewal Planning

Market Research & Business Development

  • Market Scanning
  • General Cargo Analysis
  • Forecasting Shipping Markets
  • Equipment Availability Analysis
  • Business Opportunity Analysis
  • Business Concept Evaluation
  • Performance Benchmarking

Marine Logistics Analysis

  • Infrastructure Assessment
  • Supply Logistics Modeling
  • Logistics Optimization
  • Marine Systems Analysis
  • Multi-Modal Logistics Analysis
  • Fleet Deployment Optimization

First-Hand Information.
Experience-based Consultation.

Ask us how our responsive communications and advanced information technologies support your interests, stem to stern.

Market View™ Advisory

We provide a Market View© intelligence service in the form of an ongoing current dialogue related to the tanker shipping industry and marketplace. Focused on activity in the spot transportation markets, we will also comment on relevant issues in related areas such as the period charter markets and asset markets.

Frequency and focus of periodic written reporting and supplementary discussion of topics will be established according to your requirements. Telephone consultation is arranged on a mutually agreed schedule. We will also send any relevant material developed in-house that we think would be useful in understanding current market dynamics and/or drivers in the tanker industry, and respond promptly to your inquiries.

McQuilling Market View is available as an annual subscription for a mutually agreed price. To request a quotation for services, please submit the form above, or call us to discuss your requirements.

Carbon Advisory

Through the strategic partnership of McQuilling Partners Inc. and Vertis Environmental Finance Ltd., we help customers throughout the shipping sector work toward the aim of meeting or exceeding their net zero carbon targets, both on a voluntary and regulatory basis.

Carbon Offsetting Solutions

Integrated carbon offset procurement during freight negotiation process for specific cargo requirements.

Environmental Compliance Services

Holistic approach to identify specific shipping company implications from EU ETS / IMO regulatory framework(s) & develop strategic plan to efficiently meet targets.

Environmental Sustainability Advisory

Develop science-based target strategy, carbon disclosure reporting.

Educational Resources

Monthly report highlighting key trends, pricing of carbon credits for major shipping routes, webinars, and topical white papers.

Custom Shipping Seminars

Whether you’re new to the shipping arena or just want to expand your knowledge base, McQuilling Custom Shipping Seminars are designed to provide a detailed course on tanker shipping.

A selection of modules structured as a 3-4 day training course, the seminar covers the following topics, which can be customized per your specific needs:

  • Shipping Markets
  • Shipping Terminology
  • Evaluating Marine Transportation Business Opportunities
  • Strategic Planning
  • Life Cycle of a Vessel
  • Shipping Finance
  • Environmental Protection & Regulatory Restrictions
  • Tanker Market Description
  • Marine Transportation Process Flow
  • Fleet Scheduling, Deployment & Utilization
  • Chartering
  • Operations & Claims
  • Forecasting
  • Freight Futures
  • Current Marketplace
Tanker Market Outlook guide cover

2025-2029 Tanker Market Outlook

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– Global Outlook Themes
– Oil Supply and Demand Outlook
– Tanker Tonnage Demand and Supply
– Tanker Market Technicals
– 2024 Market Performance
– Bunker Price Development
– Freight Market Outlook
– Asset Market Outlook
– Analytical Appendix
– Over 200 Figures/Tables