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Drewry Benchmarking Club

Customised Real Time Benchmarking

September 2025

All-inclusive ocean freight rate package

Are you securing the most competitive contract container freight rates?

 

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

  • Quarterly appraisal 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
  • 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...

  • Membership is exclusive to shippers - importers and exporters only (not freight forwarders, carriers or NVOCCs)
  • Access all our spot and contract ocean freight rate services via a single online platform (Dry and Reefer Benchmarking options available)
  • Participants benefit from access to freight rate forecasts, key route indices and exclusive market outlook and best practice briefings
  • Benchmarking contract BAFs every quarter on the major East/West routes
  • Bespoke quarterly appraisal reports tailored to your routes
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