Monitor, benchmark and forecast

Ports and Terminals Insight helps port operators, shipping lines and infrastructure investors make better investment, network and strategic planning decisions through independent analysis of global port performance, competitiveness, congestion and understanding of future market development.

• Understand market direction and emerging trends: Gain expert insight into trade developments, capacity growth, investment activity, ownership changes and the competitive forces shaping global container ports and terminals.
• Monitor port performance and competitive positioning: Track throughput growth, connectivity, service coverage, congestion and operational performance, while identifying which ports are gaining or losing market share and shipping services.
• Support strategic planning and investment decisions: Assess port developments, concessions and infrastructure investments, with analysis of their impact on market dynamics, competing ports and long-term capacity utilisation.
• Benchmark markets and manage operational risk: Compare port performance across regions, monitor congestion and operational bottlenecks, and utilise independent forecasts to support business planning, network optimisation and commercial strategy.

Overview of Drewry Ports and Terminals Insight

Quarterly PDF report - Download example report

Beyond the Executive Summary, each report update comprises of six sections:

• • Spotlight thought leadership: analysing key trends and developments in the sector, providing detailed and unique insight into a specific issue or theme
  • Bespoke global Port Connectivity Index and league tables of the ports that have won and lost the most services each quarter
  • Global Ports Monitor: Broader-based overview of current and anticipated, future port market performance, including updated port capacity and utilisation forecasts
  • Regional Ports Monitor: Featuring a different region each quarter, providing port-by-port comparisons of: 
    • Ports throughput
    • Regional port service coverage
    • Regional port connectivity
    • Regional port performance (leveraging Drewry AIS analytics)
    • Regional port ownership
    • Regional investment outlook (including 5-year projections of port capacity and utilisation)

  • Assessment of selected port deals and developments:

    • Summary and explanation of selected new port projects and concessions

    • Analysis showing the implications of each project on competing ports and the market

  • Port sector financial analysis:
    
    • Industry profitability and financial trends
    • Equity market performance
  • Appendix of throughput by port (selected ports)

Monthly PDF report supplement - Download example report

Regular updates and analysis of port activity, performance and congestion across global and 8 regional port markets, powered by Drewry’s proprietary port throughput statistics and AIS analytics:

• •          Spotlight analysis focusing on key developments across different port markets

  •          Container shipping market developments and outlook

  • Monthly port throughput growth trend analysis
  • Port call analytics and development trends
  • Port performance monitoring, broken-down by:
    • Pre-berth waiting time
    • Terminal time
    • Other time
  • Port congestion heatmaps by region
  • Pre-berth waiting time analysis comparisons across selected ports