100 brokers providing global coverage of the dry bulk chartering market across all vessel sizes and cargo types
BRS Bulk Team finds solutions for every dry cargo chartering need.
From Handysize up to Very Large Ore Carriers, and from single spot voyages or timecharter trips up to long-term contracts of affreightment and period timecharters. Durations from a couple of weeks up to 25 years. On a fixed or floating price basis. No client too small or too large – we undertake the simplest requirements as well as much more complex long-term logistics projects.
Our presence across the world and our co-operative team-based structure are core strengths. We also gather large volumes of key market data. Using the most sophisticated tools developed in-house and working closely with other BRS departments we harness this data to provide intelligent service to our clients.
All supported by our best-in-class post-fixture team, anticipating and solving problems, helping to make every transaction run as smoothly as possible.
With a forward-looking focus on developing new markets
Bringing knowledge and skills where clients need it most
Special expertise in arranging cargo contracts for industrial customers: steel mills, electricity producers, mining companies
As a Baltic Exchange Panellist we provide data to create the Baltic freight indices, including the Baltic Dry Index (BDI), which are used for settlement of both freight derivative and physical contracts
We put together upwards of 3000 transactions a year globally
Every fixture checked by our Compliance team
We take pride in our top-quality operations team which carries out all post-fixture work following the conclusion of a transaction, always working closely with the executing broker
Attentive to clients’ needs
Proactive problem avoidance and dispute resolution
In addition to conventional spot chartering business, BRS is also involved in complex industrial shipping contracts.
For example, multi-year contracts of affreightment for steel-mill customers in the Middle East, which may involve transhipment operations for incoming ocean-going vessels from multiple cargo origins, lightening them for discharge at shallow receiving ports. Elsewhere, other clients have outsourced to BRS all aspects of their shipping requirement, meaning we undertake the totality of their chartering needs and all the back-office operations, laytime calculations, freight invoicing. By involving us in every aspect of their upstream and downstream logistics, the client permits us to provide relevant advice drawn from our long experience and accumulated special expertise, adding significant value to their operation.
BRS Shipbrokers has been publishing for more than forty years a wide range analysis on the shipbuilding and shipping markets
Through its international network and internal databases, BRS Shipbrokers has developed a deep knowledge of the maritime world. BRS Group Annual Review provides a comprehensive set of information covering the main activities of the shipping sector, which is highly appreciated by professionals and readers interested in shipping matters.
