"We are excited to announce the addition of Container Capacity Insight to our Container Freight Portal," said Philip Damas, Managing Director of Drewry and Head of Drewry Supply Chain Advisors. "By combining essential capacity and operational insights with our popular ocean container spot market freight rate service, Container Freight Rate Insight, we demonstrate our commitment to providing those that need to closely monitor industry developments with the tools to quickly interact with, visualise and interpret both freight rate intelligence and key market and operational metrics."

About Container Capacity Insight

Updated weekly, Container Capacity Insight provides a holistic view of developments across the main container shipping trade routes. As well as access to the new online service, subscribers receive weekly PDF reports providing key data points and market commentary.

Key market insights for the main East-West trade routes include:

• Cancelled vs scheduled sailings (history, year-on-year analysis and next 5 weeks)
• Monthly history (past year) of spot rates and forecast development for the next month 
• Effective capacity and ease of access to capacity indicators
• Anticipated change in headhaul capacity for the next month
• Port congestion trend analysis
• Trend analysis of import container dwell time at selected ports
• Average CO2 emissions and most eco-friendly carrier for each main trade route
• Utilisation trend for each main E-W trade route

Special offer: Discounted subscription package

For a limited period, Drewry is offering discounted access to this unique combination of container spot market freight rate intelligence and container capacity insights. Subscriptions to both Container Freight Rate Insight and Container Capacity Insight are available for $4,975 - a 15% discount on the standard subscription to both of $5,850.

To find out more or to request a demonstration of the platform, contact a member of our supply chains team:

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About Container Freight Portal

Container Freight Portal is a fully integrated platform, supporting a community of over 500 shippers and senior container shipping stakeholders. As well as providing logistics operations teams and procurement professionals within these organisations with robust ocean freight cost benchmarks it delivers critical market and operational insights, such as; cancelled and scheduled sailings, effective capacity, transit times, dwell time and other key trade lane dynamics, that help inform procurement and service provider management decisions.

Container Freight Portal combines all Drewry's ocean freight cost comparison services in a single platform; Benchmarking Club (S-BMC), Container Freight Rate Insight (CFRI) and Drewry World Container Index (WCI) - widely regarded as the bellwether reference for ocean freight rates.