{"id":8792,"date":"2013-05-10T12:00:39","date_gmt":"2013-05-10T16:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=8792"},"modified":"2013-05-10T11:09:41","modified_gmt":"2013-05-10T15:09:41","slug":"ship-valuations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/ship-valuations\/","title":{"rendered":"Ship Valuations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/051013_1143_ShipValuati1.png\" width=\"641\" height=\"265\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Economist delved in the world of valuing boats:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Just like a house, cargo ships are bought and sold, and bankers have to estimate the value of the ship before the deals can proceed.<\/li>\n<li>Old-style ship brokers are expensive \u2013 they can charge $1,500 for the valuation, and in the close shipping community, it&#8217;s hard to get a valuation without everybody finding out about it.<\/li>\n<li>A website called VesselsValue is trying to do for shipping what Zillow and Zoopla did for real estate \u2013 an online directory where people can get instant checks of a ship&#8217;s price.<\/li>\n<li>VesselsValue takes into account things such as current and estimated future costs of shipping cargo when providing valuations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the business of valuing ships over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/business\/21577381-handy-tool-ship-buyers-bargain-boats\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/business\/21577381-handy-tool-ship-buyers-bargain-boats\">The Economist<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Economist delved in the world of valuing boats: Just like a house, cargo ships are bought and sold, and bankers have to estimate the value of the ship before the deals can proceed. Old-style ship brokers are expensive \u2013 they can charge $1,500 for the valuation, and in the close shipping community, it&#8217;s hard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/051013_1143_ShipValuati1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8792"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8796,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8792\/revisions\/8796"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}