Sparta for Freight is built by freight traders and tailor-made for the freight market, delivering actionable insights powered by Sparta’s industry-leading Global ARBs for unmatched trade and vessel positioning.
Real-time actionable insights
Gain real-time access to accurate current and forward physical market insights powered by Sparta’s Global ARBs tailored for the freight market, all in one view.
Get ahead of the market
The freight market moves fast. Sparta sources, processes and analyses market data for you, eliminating time-consuming data management and allowing you to capture market opportunities as soon as they arise.
No more data chasing
Sparta sources and cleans high-quality freight data from world-leading brokerages and data houses for you, ensuring accuracy and relevance, and consolidates all products into a freight rate outlook.
Built to meet the needs of the freight market
The freight market lacks insight into the demand-side economics as well as TCE earnings through the curve for every route, particularly for more specialised and less frequented routes. Additionally, the opaque nature of the freight market, lack of forward freight rate clarity and a trend of being over-dependent on historical information often leads to suboptimal ship and trade positioning.
Sparta’s physical market information, combined with industry-leading forward-looking arbitrage models, enables traders to anticipate global trade flows, position vessels, and trade paper with unmatched accuracy and conviction.
Sparta’s CPP freight dashboard offers real-time insights on whether each CPP freight region is bullish or bearish and the best fixture option for your vessel. Providing a market indicator for aggregated regional freight rates, real-time freight rate forecasting using Sparta live arbs across regions, TCE earnings and forecasted TCE earnings, live bunker prices, and global arb insights. Providing a comprehensive view of the freight market.
Sparta’s Clean Freight Calculator delivers instant access to reliable prompt and forward freight rates and TCE earnings for over 2500 global routes across vessel classes. By using spot market assessments in combination with historical data and extrapolation, we provide immediate access to current market-assessed prices while also providing insight into what the forward market may look like. Sparta is the only provider to offer 12 months’ insight into the forward market, helping you to negotiate better freight rates by aligning shipping costs with market trends.
Sparta’s Dirty Freight Calculator delivers instant access to reliable prompt and forward freight rates for over 600 global routes across vessel classes. By using spot market assessments in combination with historical data and extrapolation, we provide immediate access to current market-assessed prices while also providing insight into what the forward market may look like. Sparta is the only provider to offer 12 months’ insight into the forward market, helping you to negotiate better freight rates by aligning shipping costs with market trends.
Sparta’s Custom Charts provide up to 9 fully customisable charts on one page. Each chart can be tailored by selecting from live, forwards, and seasonal chart types. Custom charts enable traders to visualise Sparta’s ground-breaking Live Curves, futures, swaps, physical, and freight pricing, all integrated into one powerful custom page, delivering an unparalleled view of the energy markets.
Michael Ryan
Commodity Owner – Freight
michael.ryan@spartacommodities.comMichael Ryan, our Freight Commodity Owner at Sparta, brings over a decade of experience in the energy trading sector. His career started and flourished at Trafigura managing risk across products and regions before becoming Head of Risk for subsidiary Puma Energy. Michael then joined the Trafigura commercial team trading clean and gas freight while successfully growing the physical fleet through strategic dealmaking.
