Chartering desk · Tonnage and cargo

A ship chartering desk that answers with named ships.

Charterers send us a stem or a vessel requirement; owners and operators send us open positions. We put the two together, screen every counterparty before an offer goes out, and reply by email with a named ship, her position and a freight or hire idea, not a general level. Dry cargo from Supramax to coaster, MPP and heavy-lift, deck barges and tugs; and on the wet side product, crude, chemical, gas, bitumen, vegetable oil and coastal tankers.

I need a ship →I have open tonnage →I have a cargo to price →

Dry cargo vessel types we charter

Supramax / Ultramax

50–65,000 dwt geared bulkers for coal, grain, fertilizer and minerals

50,000–65,000 dwt · 4 × 30–36 t cranes, usually with grabs

Handysize / Handymax

25–50,000 dwt geared ships for bagged cargo, steels, grains and minor bulks

25,000–50,000 dwt · 4 × 25–35 t cranes; some with grabs

Panamax / Kamsarmax

65–85,000 dwt gearless bulkers for coal, ore, grain and mineral cargoes between equipped ports

65,000–85,000 dwt · Gearless

MPP / Heavy-lift

Multipurpose and heavy-lift ships for project cargo, steel, machinery and out-of-gauge units

5,000–20,000 dwt; heavy-lift 8,000–30,000 dwt · 2–3 cranes, 60–900 t each, combinable

Coasters

1,500–12,000 dwt coasters and general cargo ships for grain, steel, bagged cargo and short-sea trades

1,500–12,000 dwt · Gearless or 1–2 cranes; river-sea to 6.5 m draft

Barges & tugs

Flat-top barges, LCTs and tugs for project modules, equipment and coastal cargo in the Gulf and Southeast Asia

3,000–12,000 dwt; decks 60–100 m · Deck 10–20 t/m²; tugs 2,000–5,000 BHP

Tankers and gas carriers

The wet-cargo side of the desk has its own page: tanker chartering.

Small tankers

2,000–10,000 dwt IMO II/III tankers for base oil, methanol, palm oil and clean products within Southeast Asia

2,000–10,000 dwt

MR / LR product tankers

Medium and long range product tankers for gasoil, jet, gasoline and naphtha cargoes and period employment

MR 45,000–55,000 dwt · LR1 55,000–80,000 dwt · LR2 80,000–120,000 dwt

Crude tankers

Aframax, Suezmax and VLCC tonnage for crude and fuel oil cargoes on voyage and time charter

Aframax 80,000–120,000 dwt · Suezmax 120,000–200,000 dwt · VLCC 200,000–320,000 dwt

Chemical parcel tankers

IMO II stainless and coated parcel tankers of 10,000–50,000 dwt for chemicals, solvents and acids between regions

10,000–50,000 dwt

Gas carriers

Pressurised and semi-refrigerated LPG carriers, VLGCs and LNG carriers on spot and period charter

Pressurised 3,000–7,000 cbm · Semi-ref 7,000–22,000 cbm · VLGC 80,000+ cbm · LNG 125,000–180,000 cbm

Bitumen tankers

Heated bitumen carriers of 3,000–15,000 dwt for bulk bitumen and asphalt from the Gulf and the Med to East Africa, India and West Africa

3,000–15,000 dwt

Vegetable oil tankers

Food-grade IMO II/III tankers for palm, sunflower and soybean oil parcels from Indonesia, Malaysia and the Black Sea

3,000–40,000 dwt

Bunker / coastal tankers

1,000–10,000 dwt bunker barges and coastal product tankers for port supply, coastal distribution and short-sea parcels

1,000–10,000 dwt

How the desk works

A stem or a requirement reaches us by email or through the forms on this site. Before it goes anywhere we settle the points owners ask first: rates and laytime terms, the charterer of record, the piece list on project cargo, the draft at a river port, the last three cargoes and the vetting on a tanker. Then it goes to the owners on our board whose ships fit, and only to them. We come back to the charterer with named candidates, positions and an indication, and to the owner only when a cargo fits the ship.

What we do not do

Circulate your stem or your position to a list. Each goes only to the counterparties it fits.
Introduce parties to each other. The desk stays in the middle until a fixture is agreed.
Work any cargo, vessel, counterparty or route subject to UN, US, EU, UK or Swiss sanctions. Every counterparty and every ship is screened before an offer.
Follow up. If you do not reply, we assume the answer is no.

Lanes we work most

Indonesia and the Arabian Gulf into India and East Africa; the Black Sea and Danube into the Marmara, the East Med and Egypt; Egypt and Turkey to West Africa; China ex Qingdao, Shanghai and Tianjin to Southeast Asia, the Gulf and Africa; and small tanker parcels between Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam and the Philippines.

Positions and stems to desk-a005f1@in.laycandesk.com; anything else to hello@laycandesk.com. Email only: several brokers work each file, and the thread is the record.

Lanes we work

Oman to India

Limestone, gypsum, aggregates, urea and sulphur from the Omani coast into Gujarat on geared Handysize to Supramax tonnage

Sohar / Duqm / Salalah → Kandla / Mundra / Hazira · Handysize to Supramax, MPP

Egypt to West Africa

Bagged salt, cement and clinker, gypsum and bagged fertilizer from the Egyptian Med coast to the Gulf of Guinea on geared Handysize and Handymax tonnage

Alexandria / Abu Qir / Damietta / El Arish → Conakry / Abidjan / Tema / Lagos / Onne · geared Handysize, Handymax, coasters

Turkiye to East Africa bitumen

Bulk bitumen on heated tankers and drummed bitumen on multipurpose ships from the Turkish refinery coast, with Umm Qasr as a second load area, into the Indian Ocean

Aliaga / Izmit / Iskenderun / Umm Qasr → Mombasa / Dar es Salaam / Colombo · bitumen tankers, MPP and general cargo

Indonesia to India coal

Thermal coal loaded by barge at Sumatra and Kalimantan anchorages into the Indian west and east coasts on Supramax and Panamax tonnage

Meulaboh / Sumatra / Kalimantan anchorages → Hazira / Bhavnagar / Krishnapatnam / Paradip · Supramax to Panamax

Danube and Black Sea coasters

Grains, rapeseed, sunflower seed and steel on 3,000 to 12,000 dwt coasters and river-sea ships, any quantity on the draft of the day

Izmail / Reni / Galati / Constanta / Poti → Marmara / East Med / Adriatic · coasters and river-sea ships 3,000–12,000 dwt

Gulf to India sulphur and fertilizer

Granular sulphur, urea and DAP from the Gulf refineries and fertilizer plants into the Indian phosphate and fertilizer ports on Supramax to Panamax tonnage

Ruwais / Jubail / Mesaieed / Sohar → Paradip / Vizag / Kandla / Mundra · Supramax to Panamax

Sumatra to Japan biomass

Palm kernel shell and wood pellets loaded by barge at the Sumatra and Kalimantan river anchorages for Japanese and Korean biomass power plants on Handysize and Supramax tonnage

Muara Sabak / Palembang / Dumai / Pontianak / Belawan → Japan / Korea · Handysize and Supramax, barge loading