SonicShares Global Shipping ETF

BOAT

Market cap $80M

Shipping ETFs are riding on elevated freight rates as Middle East disruptions reshape logistics, with BWET SEA posting strong 2026 gains.

Put $100,000 into BWET on June 4, 2025, and you would have $2.13 million today. The setup is straightforward.

The SonicShares Global Shipping ETF (NASDAQ:BOAT) pays one of the more unpredictable distributions in the ETF universe, and shareholders pulling income from BOAT need to understand why.

The SonicShares Global Shipping ETF (NYSEARCA:BOAT) has quietly become one of 2026's most powerful outperformers, with shares near $42 after a 34% year-to-date gain and a 70% advance over the past 12 months.

The SonicShares Global Shipping ETF (NYSEARCA:BOAT) has become the cleanest way for income investors to play the Strait of Hormuz blockade, and the tape shows it.

Shipping ETFs like BWET surge as Hormuz blockade drives freight rates sky high, outperforming the S&P 500 amid war-fueled volatility.

Freedom of maritime navigation has long been considered a staple feature of the post-war liberal order but all this is changing in the era of competing superpowers

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