Container

Real-time ship tracking with service schedules, vessel supply and freight demand forecasts and effectively visualized data sets illustrating trends and trade flows.

ClipperData's container shipping solutions include:

Our ClipperCompass Container platform enables cargo owners to assess the quality of the service provided by carriers and anticipate supply changes and rate trends in container shipping.

Cleansed and normalized data sets including:

Real-time global AIS satellite vessel tracking to measure schedule reliability (on-time and missed port calls), terminal efficiency, speed and environmental performance of your carrier
Granular container flows: port-to-port loaded TEU for the major trade lanes and country to country for minor routes
Benchmark comparisons of your carrier’s operational efficiency against carriers on the same route, or between your ports of interest
Fuel consumption per TEU
Deep sea service schedules: planned vessel deployments and rotation timing & variability
Orderbook and deployment of new vessels
Econometric forecasts of future demand
Detailed supply side data and demand growth for key trade lanes. Mapping of container shipping networks by individual string, highlighting rotations.

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OUR NEW CLIPPERCOMPASS CONTAINERS PLATFORM GIVES YOU:

Speed

Quickly view comparisons of market performance, coverage and reliability for both carriers and ports, down to a terminal level, through our interactive Tableau dashboard – updated faster and more frequently than more qualitative industry publications

Efficiency

Data comparisons offer trade lane performance benchmarking, allowing users to improve route planning, drive operational efficiencies and leverage rate negotiations ― all resulting in time and cost savings. Plus, for those looking for the most sustainable solutions, ClipperCompass can also help to highlight environmental performance by carrier, string and vessel.

Reliability

Our custom dashboard allows users to take a deep dive into trade route and vessel analysis, allowing them to compare carrier and liner performance to increase on-schedule cargo arrivals, anticipate potential delays and improve logistics performance.

ClipperData Container Articles

Recent Articles from Commodity Research on Container by Analysts at ClipperData

Shipping lines slash May container capacity, extend cuts well into June 05/07/2020 | By Andrew Couper

Container capacity on all major trade lanes has been severely reduced, with the deepest cut planned for Asia – Red Sea at 14%. The world’s most active trade lane has taken a 10% haircut, while Asia – US West Coast has been dialed back 8%. The cuts extend well into June, and in some cases […]

Global Missed Port Calls Rise With Coronavirus 02/24/2020 | By Andrew Couper

Container ship visits to Chinese ports, measured both in number of vessels scheduled to call and their cumulative capacity in twenty-foot-equivalent units (TEU) plunged in late January and early February – largely due to the normal seasonal downturn associated with Chinese New Year being exacerbated by the onset of the coronavirus. At the same time, […]

Container Data Reflect Negative Impact of US-China Trade War 02/12/2020 | By Andrew Couper

The signing of the Phase One trade deal between China and the US is welcomed, as the latest trade flow volumes highlight the negative impact that the trade war has had on container trade between the two countries. Figure 1: Top country to country flows between US and Asia. Bars display the level of TEU […]

Missed port calls by container vessels offer early insight into economic slowdown 02/04/2020 | By Andrew Couper

The effect of the coronavirus outbreak on world trade is yet to become clearly visible in shipping data, but there are already signs of a slowdown. The number of missed port calls – scheduled port visits that are skipped by the vessel – is one way to measure the immediate impact of a slowdown in […]