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World Container Index - 15 Apr
Drewry’s composite World Container index slid 0.1% or $6 to $4,904.75 per 40ft container.
Two-year spot freight rate trend for the World Container Index:
Drewry World Container Index
Our detailed assessment for Thursday, 15 April 2021
View our more detailed weekly analysis, including our freight rate assessment on eight major East-West trades
Concerned about carrier service performance: New KPI, metrics and monitoring service
Our new carrier performance advisory services are built on best-in-class shipment milestone data and analytics. We can help guide and advise on a service delivery programme that meets the network profile, needs and service level expectations of your organisation.
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IMO 2020 BAF Tracker: We’ve introduced a simple, clear indexing mechanism to help determine changes in the BAF charges during the lifetime of a contract.
Low Sulphur Bunker Price Index
Global Port Throughput: Every month we publish global Port Throughput Indices - a series of volume growth/decline indices based on monthly throughput data for a sample of over 220 ports worldwide.
Drewry Port Throughput Index
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Recent News
03 Feb 2021
Drewry extends spot market ocean freight rate service coverage and Benchmarking Club participation numbers
Drewry is pleased to announce a series of enhancements to its spot market and contract ocean freight rate benchmarking services and new participation milestones in its flagship, ocean freight cost comparison service, Benchmarking Club.
02 Nov 2020
Fedespedi and Drewry to collaborate in forwarder freight rate benchmarking
Italian forwarder association Fedespedi has entered into a collaborative agreement with Drewry to raise awareness of Drewry’s Forwarder Benchmarking Club amongst its freight forwarder membership.
Recent Projects
Standardised KPI / QBR program implementation
Feb 21: A global food manufacturer was seeking to create a central contract management business unit, and standardise logistics contracts and logistic service provider management (LSP) in Northern Europe, initially across 8 LSPs.
Assisting with identifying Carrier KPI’s and target setting
Feb 21: The client contacted Drewry for advice regarding which KPIs and target values to set their shipping line providers as part of the RFP process.
Working with 5 of the top 10 global retailers (Dec 2020 - National Retail Federation)
The first independent consultancy to publish liner schedule reliability rankings in 2005
Access to an exclusive ocean freight cost benchmarking club comparing costs on over 14 million teu of freight for more than US$ 27bn of freight spend.
We were the first to publish benchmark container spot market freight rates in 2006.
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Keep up to date with the movements of container spot market freight rates with our popular Container Freight Rate Insight service.Benchmark contract rates
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Container Freight Rate Insight (Annual Subscription)
Online Service · Latest release 31 Mar 2021
The world’s first and only global source of container spot market freight rates on all the major routes. An essential reference for importers, exporters, freight forwarders and other industry stakeholders requiring up-to-date and independently researched container shipping cost benchmarks.
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Drewry Benchmarking Club
Customised Real Time Benchmarking · Latest release 01 Apr 2021
How do your container shipping costs compare with your peers...? Our Benchmarking Club allows participating members to confidentially benchmark their contract shipping costs against their peers based on genuine, shipper-only, buy rate comparisons. Combine benchmarks and market intelligence with unique rate forecasts to maximise your procurement results.
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