Decision Tools

From insight to action. Purpose-built tools for decision making in commodity and freight markets — powered by real-time intelligence.

trusted by thousands of organisations worldwide
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Decision Tools

Chartering
Chartering
Trader Tools
Trader Tools

Chartering – From data to decisions in seconds

Enhance your chartering operations with a solution designed to optimise pre-fixture processes and drive smarter, faster decisions. Our platform empowers chartering professionals with the workflows and intelligence they need to stay ahead.

Trader Tools – Gain real-time insight into important market outcomes through Arbitrage & Financial flows

Arbitrage platform turns complex freight, quality, and benchmark data into simple, actionable arbitrage insights.

Financial flows provide actionable insights into algorithmic trading behaviour across global futures markets.

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The industries we serve

Spanning the key sectors of global trade and supply chains.

Energy
Energy
Energy production, distribution & trading.
Financial
Financial
Finance, banking, insurance & asset management.
Government
Government
Government, military & defense, NGOs.
Logistics & Transport
Logistics & Transport
Freight, warehousing & logistics solutions.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Manufacturing & Industrial
Manufacturing industry, recycling, retail sectors.
Maritime
Maritime
Shipping, ports, shipbuilding & fishing.
News & Research
News & Research
Media & research for analysis & reporting.
Service & Consulting
Service & Consulting
Consulting, inspection & professional services.
Software & Technology
Software & Technology
Tech companies, software & data services.
Trading & Commodities
Trading & Commodities
Commodities, metals, agriculture & energy trading.

Trusted by thousands of organisations worldwide

“Kpler is one of the few truly objective research outfits. No agenda, just data-driven insights.”
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“The platform provides a reliable and collaborative solution that supports our operational needs and helps us stay ahead in a competitive industry.”

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Find out more about Kpler’s Decision Tools.

What are Decision Tools and how do they differ from data and research alone?

Decision Tools embed Kpler's Fundamental Intelligence and Derived Insights directly into specific business workflows—automatically highlighting the opportunities, risks, and recommended actions you need to act on in real-time. Rather than handing you raw data and expecting your team to analyze and decide, Decision Tools surface the trade ideas, vessel matches, arbitrage opportunities, and risk forecasts you should be focused on right now. This shifts you from spending time on analysis to spending time on execution and negotiations—the activities that actually move your business.

How do Decision Tools connect physical asset intelligence to actual trading and operational decisions?

Kpler's Decision Tools layer translates real-time physical asset data into decision-ready intelligence for each role—traders get arbitrage opportunities and price signals, chartering teams get optimal vessel matches and voyage economics, operations get risk forecasts and supply chain visibility. Rather than asking what the data says, Decision Tools answer the question your team actually needs answered: "What should I do now?" Each tool is purpose-built for specific workflows, so traders, charterers, and operations teams all get intelligence shaped for their specific decisions and constraints.

What specific business outcomes do Decision Tools deliver across trading, chartering, and operations?

Traders gain the ability to identify and capture arbitrage windows before markets fully price them in, improving returns and entry/exit timing. Chartering teams dramatically reduce time-to-fixture, optimize voyage economics, and avoid costly demurrage surprises. Operations teams get forward-looking risk visibility and supply chain optimization to reduce disruptions and costs. Across all roles, Decision Tools reduce decision time from hours to minutes, lower the analytical overhead on your team, and help you compete on execution speed—increasingly a key differentiator in fast-moving markets.

Can different teams—traders, chartering, operations—use Decision Tools simultaneously on the same data?

Yes. Kpler's unified data platform allows multiple teams to access the same physical asset intelligence simultaneously, with each receiving role-specific decision tools tailored to their workflows. This means a trader analyzing arbitrage and a chartering team optimizing fixtures can both draw on the same real-time vessel data and flows, ensuring everyone in your organization is working from the same source of truth. This coordination eliminates blind spots and enables cross-functional decisions (e.g., chartering strategy informed by trader market views) that would be impossible with siloed point solutions.

How do Decision Tools reduce decision cycle time and competitive risk compared to manual analysis?

In fast-moving markets, the difference between deciding in minutes versus hours often determines whether you capture an opportunity or miss it entirely. Kpler's Decision Tools automatically identify opportunities and risks using real-time data and AI models, eliminating the time spent gathering data, building spreadsheets, and debating interpretations. Your team gets recommended actions instantly, freeing them to focus on negotiation, validation, and execution rather than foundational analysis. This speed advantage compounds over time—better decisions made faster compound into sustained competitive outperformance.