Shipbroking, built on trust.
Sale & purchase, newbuilding and chartering for container, MPP / heavy-lift, shortsea, tanker and bulk vessels — with our own market intelligence behind every desk.
Sale & purchase
The sale & purchase of container, MPP / heavy-lift, shortsea, tanker and bulk vessels — guiding our clients from first contact to closing.
Learn moreFor over fifty years we have worked to earn the trust of our clients — one deal at a time.
Toepfer Transport is a shipbroking firm established in Hamburg in 1974. What began as dry-cargo brokerage grew into one of the established sale & purchase and newbuilding brokers in Hamburg, having placed well over 100 newbuildings along the way.
A small, hand-picked and highly effective team — located in Hamburg (HQ) and Shanghai — ensures prompt and direct interaction with the markets and a tailor-made approach to every single transaction.
TMI
Toepfer Multipurpose Shipping Index
Monthly time-charter assessment for a 12,500 dwt MPP / HL “F-Type” vessel, from a panel of owners, operators and brokers.
TMI 500
Toepfer Transport Multipurpose Index F500
Monthly time-charter assessment for a 12,500 dwt MPP / HL “F500-Type” vessel, from a panel of operators, owners and brokers.
TSI
Toepfer European Shortsea Shipping Index
Time-charter-equivalent assessment for two shortsea vessel types, from a panel of market participants.
Monthly averages. TMI and TMI 500: time-charter rates in USD per day; TSI: time-charter equivalents in EUR per day.