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Full ocean freight rate (contract and spot) benchmarking package

Helping some of the world’s top brands, secure the most competitive contract container freight rates and deploy the latest procurement best practices.

 

Drewry’s Benchmarking Club is an exclusive, shipper-only, closed user group, allowing members to confidentially benchmark their contract shipping costs against their peers – based on genuine, shipper-only, buy rate comparisons.

 

Club members benefit from access to all our ocean freight cost benchmarking services - Benchmarking Club, Container Freight Rate Insight and World Container Index via Container Freight Portal.

 

 

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Why Benchmarking Club?

  • Visibility of prevailing market rates (contract and spot)

  • Have confidence in your negotiating position with carriers

  • Understand short, medium and long term market development

  • Market forecasts to inform planning and indices to understand trends

  • IMO Sulphur regulation intelligence

  • Understand latest procurement best practices to maximise efficiencies and achieve optimum results

  • Provide robust proof-points to gain internal stakeholder approval

  • Monthly reports and tailored briefing for your organisation 

Container Freight Portal: fully-integrated freight cost benchmarking platform

  • Overall spend analysis and comparisons
  • Detailed analysis by route
  • Historic rate evaluation
  • Indices and forecasts
  • Rate inconsistencies
  • Includes spot rates against 6,700 routes - Container Freight Rate Insight
  • Container Capacity Insight is an optional supplementary service
  • Essential Airfreight Insights on 136 top airport to airport lanes 
  • Request spot rate forecasts against your priority routes
  • Request API access to Drewry spot rate data

Includes access to the following Drewry indices:

  • World Container Index, Intra-Asia Container Index, Airfreight Index, Port Throughput Indices, Cancelled Sailings and LSFO Bunker Price Tracker

 

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Fast facts...

  • Members include 3 of the top 10 global retail brands (by revenue).
  • Exclusive to shippers only (not freight forwarders, carriers or NVOCCs)
  • Access all spot and contract ocean freight rate services (Dry and Reefer benchmarking options available)
  • Access to freight rate forecasts and key route indices - exclusive market outlook and best practice briefings
  • Benchmarking contract BAFs every quarter on the major East/West routes
  • Twice-yearly custom appraisal reports, tailored to your routes
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