Bringing together its database of ships and financials for the first time, Clarkson Research reveals that shipping companies listed on stock exchanges across the globe now control a very significant portion of the world fleet. This is the second report on global investment in shipping (KG Shipping & Finance was the first) and the report takes a close look at the role of equity markets in shipping, and answers the following questions:

• How many stock exchanges carry shipping companies?
• What is the global market cap of shipping?
• What proportion of the world's fleet is represented on the world's stock exchanges?
• Which shipping sectors are best represented?
• On which exchanges?
• How many public shipping companies are there?
• What was their turnover and profit in 2005?

In addition there are over 30 tables of analysis, including tables on the companies, exchanges, fleet, investment behaviour, IPOs and share prices. There are profiles of selected public shipping companies. A register of the ships that public listed companies own and operate.

Contents
Executive Summary

• A concise Executive Summary and Overview of Key issues, including Shipping Exchanges, Market Cap and Financials, Public Shipping Companies, Shipping Company Behaviour, Shipping Company IPOs, Shipping Company Indices and Other Public Companies involved in Shipping.

Section 1. Analysis

• Introduction
• The Public Shipping Company Fleets
• The Exchanges
• Public Shipping Company Behaviour
• Other Public Shipping Companies Involved in Shipping
• Other Financial Information

Section 2. Company Profiles

• The Company Profiles includes a selection of prominent companies and recent IPOs.

Section 3. Fleet Lists

• A complete list of all the owned and operated publicly owned ships (Name, type, unit, year of build).

In addition to Global Shipping Exchanges 2006, another new report from Clarkson Research is KG Shipping & Finance 2006, available in September 2006.