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The Market Insights tab of the Trade Hub allows you to easily identify supply in the market. With it, you can search and view open vessel positions based on their latest AIS data, broker emails, or operational information in a specific defined geographical area.

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Create a Saved View (Public/Private) Saved views preserve filters, vessel pane fields, grid fields and their order, and other configuration settings. Saved views can be public or private. To create a new saved view, take the following steps. Select the + button in the upper-right corner of your screen. Name your saved view Save your Saved View by selecting the Save button (the floppy disk icon). To delete a Saved View, select the Trash button. If the Saved View is public, the eye icon before the Saved View name will not have a slash through it. If the Saved View is private, there will be a slash through the eye icon. Note: If there is an asterisk next to the Saved View name, it means that something has been changed. To update the Saved View with these changes, select the Save button. If you do not save these changes, then the next time you open with this view it will revert back to the last saved configuration.

Map Output

To view the results of your search on the map, you can toggle to Map output by selecting the globe icon in the view toolbar.

Search by Location

To search for vessels that are within a set geographical boundary, follow these steps.

1. Adjust the search parameters to narrow your search

Under Location, you can adjust the following search parameters:

• Regions (Trade Areas)

• Ports

• Distance from port

Under Vessel Particulars, you can adjust the following search parameters:

• Vessel Types

• Set Deadweight from Vessel Types (toggle on/off)

• Deadweight

• Heading Directions

• Move Status

• Build Year

• Days since last position update

• Threshold for Laden

• Include Laden Vessels (toggle on/off)

• Minimum Star Rating

• Minimum GHG (Green House Gas) Rating

2. Search for vessels

Once you have set your search parameters, select Search for Vessels to run a search.

3. Download search results

To download your search results, you’ll need to toggle from the Map output to the Grid output, then select the Download button. You can read more in the Download Results section of this article.

Search by Regions

To search by a region or multiple regions, enter the region name(s) into the Regions (Trade Areas) box in the left panel. Only vessels that are in the region at the time of search will appear in the region on the map.

Create your own region

You can create your own region on the map using the Polygon tool.

To do this, select the Polygon tool from the map tools. Once you select the tool, you can draw a polygon of any size or shape on the map. To stop drawing, right-click or press and hold the Ctrl key (Command key on Apple keyboards) and click (Ctrl+click).

To create a public region, select Create Public. To create a private region, select Create Private. New regions created with the Polygon tool will automatically map to your trade areas in VIP. If the trade area does not already exist, one will be created in VIP Trade Area.

Edit a region

To edit a region, click on the polygon on the map. The polygon will change from blue to orange, and you will be able to drag the corners of the polygon to new coordinates on the map. The changes you make will be saved under the region name for future searches.

Search by Laycan Target

To search for vessels that could potentially call a load port within a theoretical laycan window, you can search by laycan target.

Under Laycan Target, you can adjust the following search parameters:

• Load Port

• Regions (Trade Areas)

• Laycan Range (UTC)

• Loading Time (Hours)

• Max Load Wait Time (Days)

Search by Destination Target

To search for vessels that are heading to a specific location with an ETA in a targeted timeframe, you can search by destination target.

Under Destination Target, you can adjust the following search parameters:

• Destination(s)

• ETA to Destination

View Vessels

To view information about a vessel on the map, hover over the vessel icon (the orange triangular arrow). A window will appear showing the vessel's Profile, Status, Specs, Contracted information, and Broker information.

To view a vessel’s reported speed, select a vessel on the map and open the historical positions. Then, select one of the historical positions vessel icons. The vessel’s speed at the time will be shown on the vessel overlay screen.

Vessel Details Panel

To view additional, more detailed information about a vessel, select the vessel icon (the orange triangular arrow). The Vessel Details panel will appear on the right side of the screen.

Open Estimate

To open a voyage estimate populated with the selected vessel’s information, select Open Estimate.

Update Vessel

To update vessel information in the Data Center, select Update Vessel in the Vessel Details panel. This will open Vessel Details in VIP.

Overview tab

In the Overview tab, you can view information on the vessel’s location.

Profile tab

In the Profile tab, you can view more details on the vessel particulars, such as the vessel’s IMO number, name, flag, operator, vessel owner, vessel type, age, build year, and deadweight.

If the vessel does not exist in your VIP environment, the vessel information shown in the Profile tab will be pulled from IHS. If you open the vessel or create an estimate in VIP, the vessel particulars will be updated using data from IHS, but only if you have an IHS Fairplay license.

Edit Overview Display

To change the overview display, select Edit Overview Display at the bottom of the Vessel Details panel. You can select which fields you want to be visible and change how those fields are ordered in the Vessel Details panel. Once you’re done, you can save the display by selecting the Save button in the top right corner of the screen, next to the Saved View name.

RightShip Integration

Trade Hub makes direct calls to the RightShip API so you can see the vessel’s RightShip rating.

Grid Output

To view a list of the vessels that appeared in the search results, select the Grid output icon in the view toolbar. On this screen, you can reorganize your search results by dragging and dropping the vessels.

Download results

To download your search results, select the Download Results button in the upper right corner of the screen. Your search results will download as a .csv file.

Add or remove columns

To add or remove columns in the grid output, select the Select columns button in the upper right corner of the screen. This setup will also be saved in the Saved View (public/private).

Search Query Information

To view information on the search performed, select the Search Query Information icon in the view toolbar. The information provided on this screen is useful for troubleshooting and for understanding the search results that appear in the Grid output and Map output.