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Marine Shipping Stocks: Hot Ways to Diversify Your Portfolio

Published 04/29/2022, 12:08 PM
Updated 05/14/2017, 06:45 AM

Is it worth diversifying your portfolio with assets like shipping logistics and transport-related areas?

They can surely provide a bit of a sea breeze.

Today, let’s focus on stocks in another aspect of indirectly trading commodities (energy): sea freight, maritime shipping and logistics.

A good way to diversify the construction of your oil and gas investment portfolio is to use a variety of assets for a balanced exposure to the energy sector and its industrial components, like the logistics and shipping industrial areas. Given that these are multinational corporations with their fleets of vessels spread all over the globe, across all the oceans, their shares are a good way to give your portfolio some sea breeze.

Stock Watchlist

Last week, I presented a few key reasons to invest in the maritime shipping sector in the first article. Today, let’s watch some marine transportation stocks.

As usual, our stock-picks will be shared through that link to our dynamic watchlist, which will be updated from time to time, as we progress through this portfolio construction process.

See below for an example of some indicative metrics for our current portfolio:

Sunshine Profits Portfolio Breakdown.

In summary, this sector may present some benefits for diversifying your investment portfolio with a more balanced approach.

Latest comments

Will you show updated day rates? Afrimax, Suezmax, Panamax? Dry/wet/specialty? Difficult information to come by.
Hi Jeff, I would suggest you to take a look at the Freightos Baltic Index (FBX) that measures daily rates for shipping a 40-foot container (known as forty-foot equivalent units or FEUs) charged by freight forwarders for 12 main shipping routes through Asia, Europe and the Americas. Having marked time at around $1,500/FEU since its launch three years previously, the FBX took off in early 2020 and reached a mid-September 2021 peak above $11,000 (the actual numbers are less important than the scale of the increase). The FBX currently stands at around $8,710. Even though the order book for new container ships doubled last year, deliveries have not yet been enough to make a difference, and sentiment and freight rates in this part of the shipping market remain strong.
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