Reduce your Shipping Costs

• Benchmark your contract freight rates against your peer groups
• Identify trade lanes where savings could be made
• Quantify potential savings
• Market knowledge for confident negotiations
• Potential leverage to obtain lower costs from carriers/freight forwarders

Procurement Success through insight-led market benchmarking

• Access to Drewry’s online Container Freight Rate Insight (spot market rates)
• Receive quarterly reports reflecting latest contract rates updates
• Individually customised commentary on your own trade lanes
• Access to Drewry Outlook Briefings
• Access to Best Practice Forums
• Internal stakeholder support & approval

Continuous Benchmarking

• Quarterly cycle
• Lower overall shipping & supply chain costs
• Potential for mid term negotiations
• Add additional routes anytime
• Understand cyclical trends to optimise timing of annual contract negotiations
• Includes quarterly contract BAF benchmarks on the major East/West routes

In their own words

What other say about Benchmarking Club

"Drewry has been very helpful to us in benchmarking our shipping costs and in developing strategies to improve our shipping efficiency and effectiveness."

Head freight procurement, global high street retail brand

"Drewry’s Benchmarking Club enables us to ensure that we secure competitive freight rates with carriers and identify lanes where we could possibly further lower our costs."

Vice president of global logistics & customs at Fortune 1,000 US retailer

"We selected Drewry’s Benchmarking Club to benchmark our ocean rates with other retail industry leaders and to gain insight into container shipping market trends, forecasts and best practices through webinars provided to Club members by Drewry."

Logistics manager, leading global electronics and home entertainment brand

“The Drewry Benchmark Program has provided us with the insights - like Contract Freight Rate Benchmarks, Market and Best Practice Intelligence - to understand how one is positioned given the volatile and potentially irrational nature of the container marketplace.

This knowledge has been used for validation and / or identification of efficient procurement activities to our financial officers and has given us a toolkit to enter negotiations from a position of confidence and strength."

Senior Vice President Global Logistics of a global US FMCG company

"The Drewry Benchmark Club is helping us structure and organise historical benchmarks on our priority lanes globally. The feedback coupled with market specific intelligence gives us a good platform to evaluate our carrier strategy and procurement against peer shippers. We combine the Benchmark Club’s historical perspective with current market rate visibility using Drewry’s CFRI to know where we stand at any given point in time. The Benchmark Club benefits us both in terms of peace of mind as well as being an active tool for procurement."

Director of Logistics, Anonymous (Primary Products Industry)