Ship, Ownership, Builder & Company Information

IHS Fairplay Ship, Ownership, Builder & Company Information covers ship characteristics, shipowners, managers, operators and shipbuilders. The seven levels of group ownership provided are Group Beneficial owner, Registered Owner, Shipmanager, Operator, Charterer, Technical Manager, and Document of Compliance Company. Company links are recorded, together with address, communication, and contact details.

IHS Fairplay manages the IMO Ship and Company Numbering Schemes, on behalf of the IMO, providing unique identifiers for ships and shipowners. As the originating sole source for assigning and validating these numbers, IHS Fairplay is able to guarantee an unmatched level of comprehensiveness. Further details can be found at the IMO Identification Number website.

Who uses the Product/Service:

• Oil Companies-Ship Vetting 
• Oil Companies-Fuels and Lubricant Sales 
• Engine Manufacturers 
• Insurance Companies 
• Charterers/Brokers 
• Shipowners, Operators, Managers 
• Engine Builders 
• Classification Societies 
• Shipbuilders and Repairers 
• Marine Supply and Service Companies 
• Marine Schools 
• Government Agencies 
• Lawyers 
• Maritime Organizations 
• Consultants/Surveyors 
• Port Authorities/Operators/Repair/Towage & Salvage 
• Software Firms

What the Product/Service can do:

• Evaluate chartering risks relating to tonnage 
• Identify sales/marketing leads 
• Determine market sizing/research new markets 
• Assess competitors 
• Market products where ships are being built 
• Evaluate potential risk based on ownership, class, previous casualty and detention history 
• Gain instant access to latest data on commercial vessels and their owners, operators, and managers 
• Identify new builds in order to be able to contact the shipyard to offer goods and services 
• Find suppliers

Benefits:

IHS Fairplay Ship, Ownership, Builder & Company Information enables you to:

• Gather intelligence, round the clock via Internet, on ships of 100 GT, their owners, operators, and managers 
• Receive data directly from a validated source: IHS Fairplay is the sole global issuing body of the IMO Ship, Company and Registered Owner numbering system 
• Gain a competitive advantage by using the most accurate, current, and comprehensive data available 
• Stay abreast of new ship builds on order, under construction or negotiation, including rumors, options and contracts pending 
• Gather intelligence on worldwide maritime firms 
• Develop new sales leads and conduct market research 
• Develop a maritime database

Sea-web
The ultimate ship database, containing up to 600 data fields on over 180,000 ships of 100 GT and above with details of 200,000 owner, operator, manager, and shipbuilding companies. It covers fixtures, casualties, real-time positions and historic vessel movements.  Sea-web now contains detailed data on over 10,000 ports and 23,000 port service providers.

World Register of Ships
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World Shipping Encyclopaedia
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Register of Ships
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List of Shipowners
A single, hard-back volume containing over 1,000 pages of owner and manager information for ships of 100 GT and above

World Shipping Directory
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