A large Japanese trading house with global trading activities retained Drewry as it’s external logistics consultant to assist with identifying investment opportunities in Africa in food as well as chemical distribution and logistics infrastructures.

Drewry conducted an independent market assessment of dry bulk, containers and liquid bulk and undertook vessel valuation (charter free and charter attached) of the target company’s entire fleet.

A Brazilian coal mining and power generation company sought our assistance in assessing freight procurement options for importing coal for its local thermal power plants.

Drewry undertook a freight rate benchmarking exercise, examined their existing freight arrangements and provided a freight optimisation strategy aligned with their shipping requirements.

One of the top 5 global banks looking at investing in a Capesize, instructed Drewry to help it understand the broad nature of this vessel market and the drivers of revenue and asset value stream for the segment.