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Maritime research and consulting services

50 years of independent thinking. We are a leading independent provider of research and consulting services to the maritime and shipping industry, employing over 100 professionals across an international network of offices in London, Delhi, Singapore and Shanghai.

Our Capabilities

Who we are

What sets us apart

Our heritage

Leadership

We are Drewry

We provide our services through four business units: Maritime Research, Maritime Advisors, Supply Chain Advisors and Maritime Financial Research.

These divisions, combined, support the operational and strategic needs of an elite and diverse client base of maritime and shipping industry stakeholders.

Maritime Research

Our Maritime Research provides the robust analysis and balanced opinion those within shipping, finance and logistics need to make informed business decisions. 
The comprehensive offering keeps our clients up to date on every key maritime sector, from dry bulk to chemicals and from LPG to containers, with detailed analysis and insightful commentary on past, present and future sector performance.
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Supply Chain Advisors

Established in 2006, Drewry Supply Chain Advisors is staffed by a dedicated team of ocean freight and logistics professionals. Our clients include some of the world's largest retailers and manufacturers. We work with the ocean freight logistics and procurement teams within these organisations providing them with real-time freight cost benchmarking services and customised carrier management and ocean freight procurement solutions that promote long term shipper-carrier relations and streamlined procurement processes.
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Maritime Advisors

Our Maritime Advisors offer a wealth of experience across the maritime sectors and lead the industry in their respective areas of specialisation. Sector expertise covers; ports, bulk shipping, liner shipping, shipyards, RoRo and technical ship management.
Our combination of deep sector understanding, technical expertise and market leading insight enables us to be confident in our actions and ability to deliver the right results for our clients.
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Maritime Financial Research

Combining our market-leading resources with seasoned sector expertise we offer a highly differentiated and comprehensive range of investment and financial research services to institutional investors in maritime and shipping companies. We provide a full service offering comprising equity, credit and bespoke investment advice to an elite and diverse institutional client base.
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Key People

Drewry's leadership and senior management team

Tim Power Tim Power

Managing Director


Tim Power

Tim is Managing Director of Drewry, responsible for the implementation of company strategy and the operational Head of Maritime Advisors. He has more than 35 years’ strategic and operational experience in shipping, ports and supply chain management.


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Philip Damas Philip Damas

Managing Director, Head of Supply Chain Advisors


Philip Damas

Philip is the founder and head of Drewry Supply Chain Advisors, the logistics management arm of the Drewry Group and a global leader in ocean freight cost benchmarking and procurement management. He is also Managing Director of the Drewry Group.


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Arjun Batra Arjun Batra

Executive Chairman


Arjun Batra

Arjun is the principal shareholder and Executive Chairman of Drewry Group and has been instrumental in the growth of the company, including setting up offices in India, Shanghai and Singapore.


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Shailesh Garg Shailesh Garg

Director, General Manager India


Shailesh Garg

Shailesh heads Drewry’s operation in Delhi and is a Director of Drewry Maritime Advisors. He has over 22 years’ research and consulting experience in shipping, ports and logistics.


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Jayendu Krishna Jayendu Krishna

Director - Head of Drewry Maritime Advisors


Jayendu Krishna

Jayendu is the Director - Head of Drewry Maritime Advisors and is based out of the Singapore office of Drewry. He has more than 20 years’ research and advisory experience in shipping and ports. His assignments have straddled from commercial to strategic aspects of international trade and shipping, ports, freight procurement, due diligence, financial modelling etc. Prior to joining Drewry, he was engaged in macroeconomic research and teaching.


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Chantal McRoberts Chantal McRoberts

Director, Head of Advisory, Drewry Supply Chain Advisors


Chantal McRoberts

Chantal is a Director and Head of Advisory for the Drewry Supply Chain team, focused on working with direct shippers and BCO within the ocean freight sector. Chantal has 25 years’ strategic and operational experience in the container market, advisory and supply chain markets. 


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James Harley James Harley

Director, Head of Marketing and Business Development


James Harley

James joined Drewry in 2014 and is responsible for Group Marketing, Customer Service and Business Development. He has over 25 years’ product development and marketing experience in the knowledge management and professional services sectors. James is a Director of Drewry Group.


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Du Yu Du Yu

Director - General Manager China, Drewry Maritime Advisors


Du Yu

Du Yu is General Manager of Drewry’s China office and is based in Shanghai.


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Dinesh Sharma Dinesh Sharma

Director, Drewry Maritime Advisors


Dinesh Sharma

Dinesh is a Director within Drewry Maritime Advisors and leads the London advisory team. He has more than 10 years’ operational experience in shipping and ports and more than 14 years’ experience in research and advisory project work.


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Navin Kumar Navin Kumar

Director, Drewry Maritime Research


Navin Kumar

Navin leads Drewry’s bulk shipping research team which covers dry bulk, tankers, LPG, LNG, Offshore and multipurpose shipping sectors. He also leads the vessel valuation practice.


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Dr. Ferenc Pasztor Dr. Ferenc Pasztor

Director, Head of Ports and Specialised Shipping Research


Dr. Ferenc Pasztor

Ferenc is Head of Ports and Specialised Shipping Research within Drewry. He oversees research and related business development in Drewry’s Niche maritime research team, covering the areas of ports and terminals, shipping containers, breakbulk and reefer shipping, manning and ship operating costs.


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Leticia Astudillo Leticia Astudillo

Deputy Director, Drewry Maritime Advisors


Leticia Astudillo

Leticia is Deputy Director - Drewry Maritime Advisors. She advises port businesses, investors and lenders on port sector transactions (on both commercial and technical aspects) but also on market position and strategy. 


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Captain Hemant Gupta Captain Hemant Gupta

Deputy Director, Drewry Maritime Advisors


Captain Hemant Gupta

Hemant is a Deputy Director with Drewry Maritime Advisors and leads the ESG advisory team. He has more than 16 years of sailing experience, 10 years of port operations experience and 5 years of advisory project experience.


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Serena Huang Xiaohui Serena Huang Xiaohui

Senior Consultant, Drewry Maritime Advisors


Serena Huang Xiaohui

Serena is a senior consultant with Drewry’s maritime advisory practice team and specialises in tramp shipping advisory assignments, including but not limited to due diligence, investment feasibility, freight procurement, shipping strategy and ESG.


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Rahul Sharan Rahul Sharan

Deputy Director, Dry Bulk


Rahul Sharan

Rahul leads dry bulk research at Drewry and is the editor of Drewry’s flagship publications, Drewry Shipping Insight and Dry Bulk Forecaster.


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Rajesh Verma Rajesh Verma

Deputy Director, Tanker Shipping


Rajesh Verma

Rajesh is Deputy Director of Tanker Shipping research at Drewry. He has more than fifteen years experience in shipping research.


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Subrata Behera Subrata Behera

Deputy Director - Ports and Container Research


Subrata Behera

Subrata leads Drewry’s Ports and Containers research team. He has more than 18 years’ experience in the field of international trade and transportation.


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Santosh Gupta Santosh Gupta

Deputy Director, Drewry Financial Research Services


Santosh Gupta

Santosh leads Drewry’s Maritime Financial Research division. He has over 20 years’ experience in equity research and financial advisory. 


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Simon Heaney Simon Heaney

Senior Manager, Container Research


Simon Heaney

Simon is a regular contributor to Drewry’s monthly ’Freight Loop’ podcast on the container shipping industry and has covered the global container market for over 20 years, as well as being editor of Drewry’s Container Forecaster service he works closely with colleagues in both Maritime Research and Supply Chain Advisory divisions.


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Kelly Buckley Kelly Buckley

Deputy Director, Ocean Procurement, Drewry Supply Chain Advisors


Kelly Buckley

Kelly has 15 years’ experience in the container sector, starting her career at APL. She has worked in operation control before taking on management roles in both trade pricing and sales. At Panalpina she worked in a senior trade lane management role. 


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Aman Sud Aman Sud

Senior Manager, Gas Shippng, Drewry Maritime Research


Aman Sud

Aman is Senior Manager of Drewry’s Gas Shipping research team.


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Anurag Kumar Anurag Kumar

Senior Research Analyst - MPV Shipping, Drewry Maritime Research


Anurag Kumar

Anurag is a Senior Research Analyst in MPV Shipping at Drewry. Previously, he worked as a specialist in ports and container research where his focus areas included ports and container research. 


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Pratiksha Negi Pratiksha Negi

Lead Analyst - LNG Shipping, Drewry Maritime Research


Pratiksha Negi

Pratiksha is the Lead Analyst covering LNG Shipping at Drewry.


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Daniela Ghimp Daniela Ghimp

Project Manager, Ocean Freight Rate Benchmarking and BAF Support


Daniela Ghimp

A project manager with expertise in ocean freight cost benchmarking, BAF and container shipping markets within Drewry’s Supply Chain Advisory team. Daniela specialises in ocean rate forecasting and has a fresh view of the container and shipping sector with over four years’ experience. 


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Anshika Prajapati Anshika Prajapati

Senior Research Analyst, Drewry Maritime Research


Anshika Prajapati

Anshika is currently a Senior Research Analyst in the Tanker Shipping domain at Drewry.


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Nisha Manav Nisha Manav

Research Analyst - LPG Shipping, Drewry Maritime Research


Nisha Manav

Nisha is a Research Analyst within Drewry’s LPG shipping research team.


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Archit Tewari Archit Tewari

Research Analyst, Drewry Maritime Advisors


Archit Tewari

Archit is a research analyst supporting Drewry’s Maritime Advisory division and specialises in ESG, decarbonisation and environmental compliance in shipping.


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Ankush Kathuria CFA, FRM Ankush Kathuria CFA, FRM

Senior Manager, Drewry Financial Research Services


Ankush Kathuria CFA, FRM

Senior Manager, Drewry Maritime Financial Research


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Cath Earl Cath Earl

Senior Independent Advisor - Benchmarking and Seafreight Procurement


Cath Earl

Prior to joining Drewry, Cath was at Eurobuyer Logistics and Global Seafreight and European Logistics Contracts Manager at Heinz, the US multinational. She has delivered cost reductions and improved efficiencies through developing, implementing and managing all aspect of tender processes. Cath has developed and managed Carrier and Service provider contracts, ensuring alignment with cost and service objectives.


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Eleanor Hadland Eleanor Hadland

Senior Associate - Ports and Terminals


Eleanor Hadland

Eleanor supports Drewry’s ports and terminals research and advisory practices as a long-term expert in the sector. 


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We serve our global client base from offices in London, Delhi, Singapore and Shanghai

56

The number of countries in which we have delivered advisory services since 2005

102

Leading industry publications featuring content from our Maritime Research reports (2023 monthly average)

428

Our Maritime Advisors have worked on more than 428 port assignments in the last 10 years

Why Drewry?

Our combination of sector knowledge, rich market insight and commercial awareness sets us apart and enables us to consistently deliver the performance, profitability and competitive advantage our clients seek.

Rich heritage

From our origins in 1970 London to a 21st century maritime and shipping consultancy, Drewry has established itself as one of the most widely used and respected sources of impartial market insight and analysis.

Combined intelligence

We combine timely and relevant market analysis with industry-leading technical expertise to provide our clients with real commercial value and competitive advantage. Our understanding comes not only from being close to the sectors we serve but also from working with our clients and giving them a balanced, highly practical and commercial perspective. 

Independence

Our voice is our own and is not defined or influenced by others. This impartiality and objectivity has cemented our reputation as an indispensable industry reference.


Insight and intelligence

Our depth of industry knowledge and market understanding provides the foundation for everything we do. It's in our DNA.

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Our heritage

We've been continuously charting and analysing the world's maritime markets since 1970. Here are some of the key milestones that defined the journey towards Drewry becoming the primary source of insight and advice to the global maritime and shipping industry.
1970

Drewry established

Drewry established in London by George Drewry, a Paris based tanker broker, to provide independent market research services to the maritime and shipping industry. Learn More
1975

Shipping Insight launched

Drewry launches ’Shipping Insight’, the original, monthly, independent analysis of the world’s shipping markets. Learn More
2002

Container terminal 'bible' launched

Drewry launches the ’ARGCTO’. We were the first and remain the only company publishing an annual ‘industry bible’ for the container terminal sector. Learn More
2004

Drewry launches advisory services division

Extends client offering to include bespoke research and advisory service capability with the launch of Drewry Maritime Advisors. Learn More
2006

Container spot market freight rate index

The first to publish benchmark container spot market freight rates. Subsequently to evolve into our widely referenced online Container Freight Rate Insight service. Learn More
2007

Drewry Supply Chain Advisors launched

Second advisory division opened, Drewry Supply Chain Advisors - offering support to ocean freight procurement and logistics teams within multinational retainers and manufacturers. Learn More
2013

Launches new investment research service

Our Maritime Equity Research division opens in London, offering an independent investment research service on listing companies in the maritime and shipping industry. Learn More
2014

Drewry Benchmarking Club formed

Drewry launches Benchmarking Club, a closed user group for importers and exporters - allowing members to compare contract freight rates against their peers. Learn More
2016

Launches Bid Management Solution

Drewry Supply Chain Advisors launches an innovative e-sourcing and event management solution for ocean freight procurement teams. Learn More
2020

50th anniversary

Drewry celebrates 50 years of independent thinking - charting and analysing the world’s maritime markets. Learn More
2023

Launches Container Freight Portal

Container Freight Portal is a cutting-edge platform hosting contract and spot rate benchmarking services, container capacity and air freight rate insights. Learn More
2024

Launches Drewry OnDemand

OnDemand is Drewry’s all-new Maritime Research Knowledge Centre; a fully-integrated platform that combines fleet, trade, rates and valuation data with proprietary AIS analytics. Learn More

Global offices

United Kingdom

35-41 Folgate Street
London E1 6BX
United Kingdom
T +44 20 7538 0191

India

4th Floor, Tower C
Urban Square
Sector 62, Gurugram
Haryana - 122 098 India
T +91 124 497 4979

Singapore

#17-01 Springleaf Tower
No. 3 Anson Road
Singapore 079909
T +65 6220 9890

China

Unit D01, Level 10,
Shinmay Union Square
Tower 2, 506 Shangcheng Road
Pudong, Shanghai, China 200120
T +86 (0)21 5081 0508

For further information call us on +44 20 7538 0191 or email enquiries@drewry.co.uk

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