'TO SET THE RECORDS STRAIGHT'

                                              " TO SET THE RECORDS STRAIGHT"
                                              by Mr. Anastasios Maraslis
                                             S.T.I.C-President/Director.

I am sorry to state the obvious but, sometimes, it seems we forget the basics or we take for granted what should be always checked first;

 

-A fixture which never came through, since charts failed to lift the subjs, is not to be

 considered a fixture, at all!
 Therefore the hire/freight of such failed biz can't and shouldn't be a guidance to what

 the freight market levels are!
-(Since when a failed fixture can be a guidance for owners or brokers? Is an athlete's  

 failed try to high jump 2.50 m a guide that men jump 2.50 m?).
-There are few, (happily), charterers who have no firm biz in their hands, (L/C is not

 opened/sales contract under negos), who indicate high rates to attract/secure the vessel

 and they even start firm negos with owners but failed to lift the subjs, left vessels in spot

 position, (something we all experience in large scale recently), and instigated the false r

 ate as a guide!
- A Charter fixture is considered to have been realised ONLY when is CLEAN OF SUBJS and

  when the FREIGHT or at least the first HIRE is being PAID, cleared in owners bank a/c!
-Reported, fictitious hire or freight numbers, derriving from Freight Derivatives, 'paper'

 market, or RECORD FIXTURES - who knows how done -as source of info/guidance is not

 pragmatic/true FOR US!

-There are men who make high jumps over 2.40 meters (Javier Sotomayor /WR since

 1993) but this doesn't reflect what the average athlete can do or the average ordinary

 man!

 

Please ppose to us any firm business (L/C is in place) and preferrably, cargo at port ready for loading, and when quoting a vessel kindly check what is the physical market paying empirically and not what the 'paper' market is expecting to make or the reports/promote as a guidance.

 

Freight Rates are determined by the doctrine of supply and demand ONLY and not by feeding owners expectations with ideas based on speculation. To set ones records straight, more effort is required, in real time, in the physical market, instead parrot /quoting what is published/read. Owners and Chrts alike need useful advise/consultancy from WHAT ONE HAS PERSONALLY EXPERIENCED/TOUCHED- NOT READ!

 

Wishing successful fixtures to all!

 

Sincerely yours

Shipowners Trust International Corporation (S.T.I.C)

Anastasios Maraslis
President/Director.

www.eshipownerstrust.com

chartering@eshipownerstrust.com

SHIPOWNERS TRUST INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION                              S.T.I.C                    
Shipping & Trading
SHIP OPERATION/CHARTERING /S&P / TRADING.

                            ' BUNKERS VS CARGO'                    
            Article written by Mr. Anastasios Maraslis
                       S.T.I.C-President/Director                                     28th February 2012

We are all experiencing a Shipping crisis similar to the '70's,'80's and '90's with very poor freight rates, oversupply of tonnage and due to the banking system turmoils...limited credit lines and LAST BUT NOT LEAST : the bunker prices going off the rooftops!

In a bad freight market, economies must be made and do the outmost to maximize earnings on each voyage by cutting down expenses to the minimum.

If you agree with  the above last statement I hope that you will be benefited greatly considering the following:

Perhaps, there have been times in your shipping career that you might have been taken by surprise with the volatility of the BUNKERS COSTS.
Bunkers costs is a major cost in vessel's running expenses and something you can't ignore in a poor freight market like this.
Sometimes, you might even have witnessed, that the difference between prices available at each end of a voyage exceeds the value of the freight per ton of cargo carried!
Thus in difficult times, a good forward planning has to be made and surprisingly anyone can discover  that CARGO INTAKE SHOULD BE RESTRICTED so that maximum quantities
of bunkers can be lifted at a loading port where bunker supplies are a lot less expensive than at the intended discharging port.

==>GREAT DEAL OF MONEY CAN BE SAVED, OR LOST for the shipping company, depending on how the balance looks between cargo and bunkers! <==

A bunkers planning framework if followed or put into the computer can make you huge savings and cut back your company's running expenses .
Unplanned bunkering or, alternatively, calculated by some one on the back of a napkin can waste you lots of money!
Systematic planning by the ship operator for each voyage of a vessel, can produce very large savings of thousands of dollars protecting and maximising your company's income.

HERE ARE THE PARAMETERS FOR CONSIDERATION AND RESPOND FOR  A WELL THOUGHT BUNKERS FORWARD PLANNING:

1. What is the optimum speed and consumption for the voyage? The first calculation.
2. Steaming, time and consumption.
3. What price? Alternatives and how to choose?
4. Freight or bunkers?
5. Unusual cases to be considered and be prepared.

A DWT 40,000 bulk carrier proceeding from Rotterdam in ballast to load steel products and wood pulp in Brazil, then sailing on to Durban to discharge  and take further cargo, before sailing finally to Japan.
Where should she lift up bunkers and to what extend?  Rotterdam? Durban? Singapore? Japan?
Many alternatives to be considered and each one at each own merit on a voyage-by-voyage bunker buying basis.
Knowledge and information is power which is interpreted in MONEY SAVINGS OR PROFITS,  if you know how to appropriately apply them to your benefit.
I hereby wish to take this opportunity to thank you all for your kind support and acknowledgement contributing in our company's value.
Sincerely Yours,
Anastasios A. Maraslis
President/Director.

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