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27 Mar 2024: The re-routing of mainline vessels via the Cape of Good Hope has resulted in a steep downturn in vessel call capacity across East and Central Mediterranean hub ports, but West Mediterranean ports have shown more resilience.
26 Mar 24: Chantal McRoberts, Head of Advisory and Hind Chitty, Principal Consultant Supply Chain Advisors review key indicators from Container Capacity Insight to provide an outlook for the Asia-Europe trade.
25 Mar 2024: The Gemini cooperation agreement between Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd will rely heavily on a small number of transhipment hubs to support its new network. The operational performance of several of the terminals is assessed to be world-class in terms of intensity of asset use, but Drewry highlights that strong performance will be essential if the hub-and-spoke strategy is to succeed.
Container Freight Rate Insight (CFRI) provides ocean spot market freight rate intelligence against 790 port pairs, all updated monthly. CFRI is a popular reference for index-linked contracts and includes a monthly insight PDF report. (Annual subscription)
Benchmarking Club (S-BMC) is exclusive to shippers/BCOs. Members benefit from container contract rates, spot market rates, freight rate forecasts, indices, comprehensive market assessments and industry best practices. (Annual subscription)
Our Container Capacity Insight (CCI) service provides an analysis of container capacity on the main trade lanes, freight rate development, cancelled vs scheduled sailings, port congestion, year-on-year comparisons and much more. Weekly PDF reports, Annexes and Interactive online service (Annual S...
Our team of experts can support all stages of the bid including how to incorporate sustainability in your tender, identify areas of risk and build a robust and achievable timeline. We work collaboratively with your teams and supported by technology partner, Freightender, provide interactive bid ...
Our Multipurpose Forecaster provides an unparalleled depth of market analysis. This subscription package comprise the annual market review together with quarterly sector updates and all tables, charts and graphs in Excel.
How do your container shipping costs compare with your peers...? Our Benchmarking Club allows participating members to confidentially benchmark their contract shipping costs against their peers based on genuine, shipper-only, buy rate comparisons. Combine benchmarks and market intelligence with unique rate forecasts to maximise your procurement results.
Our Container Capacity Insight provides a weekly assessment of cancelled sailings and container capacity across four major trades and port congestion by region. Port waiting information is powered by Drewry AIS data.
CFRI was the first global source of container spot market freight rates on all the major routes and remains a trusted reference for importers, exporters, freight forwarders and other industry stakeholders requiring up-to-date and independently researched container shipping cost benchmarks.
Quarterly In-depth Market Forecasts · Latest release 27 Mar 2024
Our Multipurpose Forecaster provides an unparalleled depth of market analysis. This subscription package comprise the annual market review together with quarterly sector updates and all tables, charts and graphs in Excel.
Quarterly In-depth Market Forecasts · Latest release 22 Feb 2024
A forward-looking and insightful market analysis and 5 year forecasts for the product tanker shipping market. All quarterly report updates are accompanied by tables and charts in MS Excel format. This Forecaster annual subscription package now includes FREE Monthly Supplements.
Drewry Supply Chain Advisors is pleased to announce that an interactive, online version of its Container Capacity Insight service is now available to subscribers via Drewry Container Freight Portal.
Drewry’s investment research team updates its independent assessment of the financial health of the box shipping industry. The full report is now available to purchase online.
Reefer container freight rates continue to outperform the dry cargo trade, despite an unprecedented contraction in reefer seaborne trade last year, and this divergence is forecast to continue over the next few years, according to Drewry’s recently published Reefer Shipping Annual Review and Forecast report.
24 Jul 23: M&A-led growth strategies will propel leading regional terminal operators and container shipping lines into the global terminal operator rankings next year, according to Drewry’s latest Global Container Terminal Operators Annual Review and Forecast report.