Associate Members

Forwarder Benchmarking Club: Features

• Exclusive to freight forwarders and NVOCCs
• Access to market rates based on genuine buy rate comparisons
• Worldwide coverage including all the main deep sea trade routes
• Individually tailored and customised reports for each member
• Confidentiality assured

Key membership benefits and privileges

• Benchmark carrier buy rates against your peers and gain the ability to negotiate lower rates with confidence
• Identify the margin opportunity between your carrier buy-rates and BCO sell rates
• Use independent benchmark data to demonstrate the competitiveness of your rates with customers and prospects
• Complimentary access to World Container Index, an online service providing weekly benchmarks for 8 key head- and backhaul port pairs between China, the United States and Europe to keep finger on the pulse of the dry spot markets
• Discretionary access to spot market container freight rate intelligence and market assessments - Drewry Container Freight Rate Insight (online service)
• Access to Drewry’s freight rate benchmarking and forecasting consultancy team

Detailed, customised benchmarking reports covering:

• TOTAL COST – including base ocean rate, THC’s, and surcharges
• RANGE – average, lowest, highest market rates
• SCALE – comparison by shipper size (S, M, L)
• RANKING – how you rank against your peers