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Throughout this document, "Shipping Guide" means a daily paper specialized in the business field of international transportation and trade published by Ocean Commerce Ltd. "CSG", which stands for Cyber Shipping Guide, means this site, an alternative service for subscribers to Shipping Guide presented by Ocean Commerce Ltd.

Prerequisites

  • Make your subscription to Shipping Guide: Most of the contents of CSG are reserved to subscribers to Shipping Guide. You are required to be a subscriber to Shipping Guide if you want to get the full access to all CSG contents. You can make your subscription at this page. If you want to try a free trial before making your subscription, make your free trial registration at this page.
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Make Use of Filedownloading

  • In search of liner schedules and vessels, you are now able to download your search result as a csv-formatted text file if the total number of records does not exceed 1000 for schedules and 100 for vessels.
  • When you open or retrieve the file, please note that voyage number is not actually a number but a string. The voyage number 02E03, for example, is considered as 2.00E+03 because E means exponent if this data type is set to a number. This may produce an unexpected result.
  • Because the dates formatted like "7/13(Fri)-14(Sat)" can not be treated as dates in your application, it is divided into two dates: "07/13/2007","07/14/2007". Weekdays are omitted. Please make use of calculation function of your application to get them if you want to.

How to search your requests

  • We recommend subscribers to narrow down conditions for your search by minimizing unfilled fields. You would retrieve the search results more effectively.
  • Not case-sensetive.
  • Rewrite the default date range if necessary. Enter a date in the form like 05/31/2005.
  • Use the help lists for your aid to fill the fields. You can set the field value to the value you select in help window by clicking "Get this" button.
  • Use .. (two periods) to specify the range. See the following exapmles:
    • Example 1: Year of built
    2005 the year of 2005
    2005.. the year of 2005 and after
    ..2005 the year of 2005 and before
    2000..2007 between the year of 2000 and 2007 (both included)
    Example 2: TEU
    3000 equals to 3000TEU (not more than and not less than) 3000.. equals to or more than 3000TEU
    ..3000 equals to or less than 3000TEU 3000..4000 between 3000TEU and 4000TEU (both included)

Abbreviations and Conventions used for shipping schedule pages

  • Vessel name in all capital letters: fullcontainer vessel
  • R: reefer facilities, HD: heavy derick with maximum loading capacity of 50 tons or more, C: container cargo acceptable(applied only for conventional vessels), T.T.: transit time, *: independent line, #: served via transhipment, +: calls subject to inducement
  • Abbreviation used for flag
    • Ab: Netherlands Antilles & Aruba Al: Algerian Am: American
    An: Antigua & Barbuda Ar: Argentine Au: Australian
    Ba: Bahamas Bd: Bangladesh Be: Belgian
    Bh: Bahrain Bm: Bermuda Bo: Bolivian
    Br: British Bz: Brazilian Ca: Canadian
    Ch: Chilean Co: Colombian Cp: Cypriot
    Da: Danish Du: Dutch Ec: Ecuadorian
    Ep: Egyptian Et: Ethiopian Fr: French
    Ge: German Gi: Gibraltar Gr: Greek
    HK: Hong Kong Ho: Hondurus Ia: Indonesian
    In: Indian Iq: Iraqi Ir: Iranian
    Is: Israeli It: Italian Ja: Japanese
    Ko: South Korean Ku: Kuwaiti Li: Liberian
    Lu: Luxemburg Ma: Maltese Me: Mexican
    Mm: Myanmar Ms: Marshall Is. My: Malaysian
    Ng: Nigerian No: Norwegian Pa: Panamanian
    Pi: Philippine Pk: Pakistani Pt: Portugal
    Pv: Peruvian Qt: Qatar PRC: P.R. of China
    Ru: Russian SA: South African Sd: Saudi Arabian
    Sg: Singaporean SL: Sri Lanka Sp: Spanish
    SV: St. Vincent & Grenadines Sw: Swedish Th: Thai
    Tu: Turkish Tw: Taiwanese UAE: United Arab Emirates
    Ur: Ukraine Va: Valletta Ve: Venezuelan
    Vn: Vanuatu Vt: Vietnamese Ys: Yugoslavian