Navin Kumar

Profile

Navin is the director of Drewry Maritime Research and manages the core team of Drewry’s bulk shipping research. He started working with Drewry in 2003 as a gas shipping analyst and over the years has gained extensive experience in various domains of maritime research and consulting. Navin has been instrumental in establishing offshore shipping practice at Drewry. 

In addition to leading Drewry’s bulk shipping research, he specialises in asset valuation, residual value forecasting, and asset depreciation strategies for clients. He has a strong interest in shipping cost modelling, driven by a keen interest in quantitative analysis. 

Navin works on a variety of projects  and is actively involved in advising clients on the issues related to port development, port expansion, port traffic estimation, tariff benchmarking, ICD and CFS traffic forecast, market due diligence, commercial due diligence of assets, due diligence of port operations and freight rate benchmarking.  

At Drewry, he has pioneered the use of technology for efficient management and delivery of research and consultancy reports.