Container Spot Market Rate Insight

Our flagship spot market benchmarking service, Container Freight Rate Insight, is one of the most widely referenced in the shipping industry. This online service is hosted at www.drewrycfri.co.uk

The data that powers this online research service is updated as follows:

• Bi-monthly on all 681 routes
• Monthly on most high volume trade lanes and
• Weekly on five key trades via Drewry’s Hong Kong-Los Angeles Benchmark and data from the World Container Index.

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Each benchmark includes rates for both 20ft and 40ft dry box containers. Key trade routes covered include the transpacific, Asia-Europe, transatlantic, Middle East & South Asia trades, North-South trades (South America, Africa & Oceania), intra-Asia and intra-Europe trades. In most cases rates for both headhaul and backhaul trades are provided.

Those with an enhanced subscription to our online service can search our entire library of freight rate data going back to January 2006 and download the results to your device in xls format. Search Rates includes the following key features:

• Search and select single or multiple port pairs to view and download current freight rates of your choice to your device.
• Select and download freight rate history going back on 2006 to assess key trends and trade cycles.
• Download freight rate data to your device in Excel format.
• Download either all-in rates or a breakdown of the base rate, bunker adjustment factor (BAF) and terminal handling changes (THCs).

N.B. The rate benchmarks represent spot market rates for Full Container Loads paid by freight forwarders to ocean carriers for a particular month or week. They are affected by seasonal and short-term supply-demand factors, notably by the peak season in the trades from Asia.

Contract Rate Intelligence - Drewry Benchmarking Club

Closely aligned to our spot rate service is Drewry Benchmarking Club an exclusive, participation-based service open to importers and exporters which allows them to track their contract rates against their peers.

Membership to Benchmarking Club is open to importers and exporters only - not Freight Forwarders or NVOCCs - and allows participants to confidentially benchmark contracted ocean shipping costs against their peers. Member organisations provide their contract rates confidentially to Drewry. In exchange, we aggregate these with other members’ rates and provide anonymous benchmarking information for each member’s specific routes.