The latest enhancements to the service deliver more granular coverage, deeper insight and improved usability, addressing customer feedback that this key market lacked the level of intelligence available on the main East–West routes.

Freight rate coverage has been significantly expanded with the addition of 25 intra-Asia port-to-port lanes, prioritizing connections between Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan and Malaysia. Furthermore, freight rates on 18 lanes in and out of Shanghai are now updated on a weekly basis.

IACMI v3 also introduces a multi-layer Trade Route Analysis. While retaining the region-to-region trade route fundamentals, the new version adds country-to-country metrics for Supply and Demand, and port-to-port metrics for the direct vessel connections, revealing liner network frequency and transit times, new market entrants, etc. 

These enhancements enable users to accurately quantify the structural trade shifts. For example: growth in container volumes from China to Vietnam slowed down markedly in 2025 , from 27% YoY in 2024 to 16% YoY in 2025. Within the commodities traded, there is a clear trend towards higher-value cargo, with the share of raw materials shrinking 16% between 2023 and 2025 while the share of intermediate goods and capital goods rose 11% and 12%, respectively, in teu-terms. 

Finally, IACMI v3 includes an automatically generated monthly PDF report, featuring the Chart of the Month, recent freight rate trends, and the latest month-on-month and year-on-year Supply and Demand comparisons.

With these enhancements, IACMI v3 provides clearer, more actionable insight into the dynamics shaping the intra-Asia container market.

To request a demonstration of Drewry’s v3 intra-Asia Container Market Insight, email supplychains@drewry.co.uk