Introduction -- A review of the dry bulk shipping development -- A survey on the econometric modelling in the dry bulk shipping -- Modelling price behavior in the freight market -- Modelling price behavior in the new-building ship market -- Modelling price behavior in the second-hand ship market...

We investigate for the first time the spot rate dynamics for Very Large Gas Carriers (VLGCs) by means of multrifractal detrended fluctuation analysis (MF-DFA) and rescaled range (R/S) analysis. Both methods allow for a rigorous statistical analysis of the freight process by detecting...