Market intelligence for intra-Asia trades

Region, Country and Port level Market Intelligence for intra-Asia Trades

Drewry’s Intra-Asia Container Market Insight is the first bilingual (English and Mandarin) market intelligence resource that enables shippers, forwarders, carriers, port authorities and terminal operators to gain access to integrated region-to-region, country-to-country and even port-to-port market intelligence on the Intra-Asia container shipping market. 
  
If your business interests extend into the intra-Asian container shipping markets, this new service will be an indispensable addition to your market intelligence portfolio. 

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Updated monthly, delivered digitally

Delivered through the Drewry OnDemand platform and updated weekly, it provides insights into trade route fundamentals, port performance and liner fleet strategies, both at a regionally aggregated level (for each of the 15 sub-trade routes that connect the six sub-regions: Greater China, North, South and Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Oceania) as well as the country-to country and even port-to-port level

Freight Rates

Drewry’s Intra Asia Container Index provides weekly updated freight rates on 18 key routes in and out of Shanghai, as well as a Composite Index to track overall market trends. This is complemented by freight rates on 25 routes focused on connections between Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan and Malaysia, which are updated monthly.

Trade route analysis
Keep up to date with market development and fundamentals: supply, demand, vessel utilization and level of competition between service providers (HHI Index). The service leverages satellite data from our AIS feeds to provide accurate estimates for effective capacity per trade route. We complement this with trade route demand evolutions and a selection of freight rates drawn from our Container Freight Rate Insight service.

Carrier analysis
Discover who the main carriers are on each trade lane and evaluate their vessel deployment strategies to inform your competitive market assessment and vendor selection decisions.  

Port performance analysis
The Port Analysis section provides essential port-related metrics. The Regional Port Throughput index, based on ’now-casted’ demand evolutions, provides a snapshot indication of the relative market strength. Port Call Performance analysis gives a good understanding of pre-berth waiting time and berthing time development at both sub-region as well as for the leading port in each sub-region. 

Further information on the analysis within each main section:

• Chart of the month: a commentary and chart on a particular issue or theme every month
• Region-to-Region analysis: 
  • Tree maps for Supply and Demand: providing an helicopter perspective overview of the latest Supply and Demand evolutions across all the sub-trade routes, in a single chart. Monthly, quarterly or yearly visualisation. 
  • Trade Route Analysis: provides 5 key metrics (supply, demand, utilisation, freight rates, and HHI) for each of the sub-trades. 
    Carrier Analysis metrics: market shares and capacity shares by trade route, effective capacity per operator. 
    5 regional Port Performance metrics for throughput, congestion, vessel calls by vessel size, port call performance and port productivity.
• Country-to-Country analysis:
  • Demand: Monthly updated intra-Asian demand numbers (in kteu) for each country-to-country relationship  
  • Ability to drill down to Commodity Groups (raw materials, intermediate goods, consumer goods, capital goods) to identify structural shifts in demand and anticipate seasonality.
  • Supply: Monthly updated view of the capacity provided by each carrier, to spot changes in asset deployment strategies.  
• Port-to-Port analysis:
  • Supply: Monthly updated view of the port-to-port capacity deployed by direct vessel connections reveals liner network frequencies, transit times, new market entrants, etc. to assist end users in their carrier identification and selection decisions. 

How to access the Intra-Asia Container Market Insight service

Access to this online subscription service is through the Drewry OnDemand platform.