Links

All the useful stuff will be kept here:


☼ Glossary - the list of shipping terminology and acronyms, which I have collected from various sources for my own needs.

☼ Stowage Factor of bulk cargoes (table) - a list of different cargoes with its stowage factors.

☼ Online Toll Calculator for Suez passage - a useful tool, when you need to have at least rough amount of DA for Suez passage.

PassageWeather - a weather forecast service, which I use all the time.

☼ Brent Spot price and latest news - The Telegraph - an online chart with Brent spot price. In general it's a nice news portal. Also you can choose some companies and see their stock exchange price.

Trading Economics - historical data for more than 20 million economic indicators, exchange rates, stock market indexes, government bond yields and commodity prices. 

Netpas Distance - a useful tool for calculating sea passage distances. You can simply download the program and use it. As a free user, you will have five estimations a day. As a corporate user, you will be able to make 100 estimations a day, which should be more than enough.

MarineTraffic - a service of vessel positions tracking based on AIS data. Shows real-time ship locations and also ports of arrivals/departures. 

Draft alterations depend on water density - the useful formula for operations department, the estimations of vessel's draft alteration when vessel passes from one water basin to another.

☼ Interlegal Blog - a blog about maritime law, insurance and arbitration.

☼ Shipmap.org - visualization of global cargo ships - not a very useful, but a nice thing to look at, which shows vessels' tracks and routes all over the globe (data of the year 2012).

In case you have your own useful tools, please share it with me.