Vantage Shipbrokers is a tanker shipbroking firm founded in Singapore in 2012. The company acts as an intermediary between shipowners with tanker vessels to deploy and charterers — oil companies, traders, and refiners — who need to transport petroleum products and chemicals by sea. Vantage covers five cargo segments: dirty petroleum products (crude and heavy oils), clean petroleum products (refined fuels), petrochemicals, biofuels and vegetable oils, and longer-term project and time charters. Vantage operates primarily out of Singapore, with a Dubai office opened in 2023, and employs roughly 59 professionals. Vantage earns commissions on the transactions it brokers, typically as a percentage of freight, hire payments, demurrage, or vessel sale prices. Revenue is therefore directly tied to the volume and value of chartering activity — more deals and higher freight rates translate to higher commissions. The cost structure is predominantly people costs, as brokers are the primary revenue-generating engine. Vantage's growth strategy centers on geographic expansion into Europe and the U.S., adding new divisions in carbon trading and renewable energy brokerage, and monetizing Opswiz, a proprietary cloud-based operations management platform that Vantage plans to license to other industry firms and expand into a broader data analytics offering.