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John Paskin, the founder and former CEO of cFlow, joins Oceanbolt as Chairman of the Board.

We demonstrate how to track Vale's iron ore exports out of Ihla Guaíba using the Oceanbolt Python SDK.

We wrote a white paper on how to navigate new data landscape in shipping.

You can now draw your own polygons and get near-instant (<1 sec) current and historical vessel counts.

New customer announcement.

We investigate the proportion of vessels that served unique trade lanes only across the fleet sub-segments during 2020.

We are introducing a learning series for our Python SDK.

Oceanbolt is launching Python SDK and Excel Add-In for direct data integration

We wrote a review of the 2020 iron ore and fertilizer trades.

We are excited to announce that we have entered a partnership with Shipping Strategy.

We spoke with TradeWinds about our plans for 2021.

Our congestion data forms the foundation of TradeWinds' latest article on the coal congestion in China.

We are excited to announce our first customer in the Capesize segment.

Our congestion data is featured in a ShippingWatch article.

Jag Anand redirects its metallurgical coal towards Chiba, Japan.

We are thrilled to welcome our first Australian customer, Aurizon, to the Oceanbolt Data Platform.

Our congestion data is featured in a TradeWins article.

The longest waiting Australian coal vessel discharges after 6 months congestion in Fangcheng.

We took a look at Bloomberg's article on this new trade route.

Our work is featured in the UN AIS Handbook and will help contributing towards transparency in dry bulk trading.

Another exciting customer announcement. Ultrabulk, a leading global dry bulk shipowner and operator, has joined the Oceanbolt Data Platform.

As the global COVID-19 pandemic unfolded, governments responded with local or national lockdowns. One of the consequences of these lockdowns were spikes in port congestions across ports and even entire countries.

As reported by the National Bureau of Statistics of China, Chinese industrial production contracted by 13.5% over January and February 2020 implying a lower demand for key dry bulk raw materials such as coal and iron ore.

As the global COVID-19 pandemic unfolded, governments responded with local or national lockdowns. One of the consequences of these lockdowns were spikes in port congestions across ports and even entire countries.

Back in April, we wrote a little piece for the Dry Cargo International magazine on the impact of COVID-19 on Swedish and Norwegian Iron Ore exports based on what we saw in our data.

We are very excited to announce that Western Bulk, a leading global dry bulk operator, has joined the Oceanbolt Data Platform to leverage our real-time insights into the dry bulk market.

We are proud to announce that Oceanbolt has been awarded another grant in the form of a startup loan from Innovation Norway, a Norwegian Governmental entity supporting Norwegian companies in innovation and development.