Bands

LINERLYTICA (container shipping research service of BANDS Financial Limited) — Weekly container-shipping market-intelligence panel: fleet-level capacity deployment and congestion metrics (port-congestion TEU and % of world fleet), idle tonnage counts, rolling 30-day vessel delivery and scrapping tallies, monthly volume series for the top 10 North American ports split into loaded-inbound / loaded-outbound / empty-outbound TEU with a derived trade-imbalance ratio, freight-rate index tracking (SCFI), blanked-sailing / capacity-withdrawal percentages by trade lane, a market barometer regime readi…

Bands offers (Alternative, Supply Chain, Sentiment, Reference) — ~52 issues/yr × ~10-20 weekly metric series, plus monthly top-10 port volume panels (4 stacked components × 10 ports) — order of 10^4-10^5 observations per year in the published panel, sitting on a vessel-level world-fleet master implied by the '% of fleet' denominators and rolling 30-day delivery/scrapping tallies.

Freight-rate and container freight futures modelling (explicit ICE / Euronext / INE / CME futures watch); carrier earnings and asset-value forecasting; supply-side nowcasting of deployed versus withdrawn capacity by trade lane; port congestion and queueing models; US trade-imbalance and empty-repositioning forecasts; tariff and geopolitical shock impact analysis; cost-to-consumer inflation transmission studies; index construction and backtesting for shipping funds and freight derivatives.

The data is with 8 years of history.

Coverage spans Other, US, Europe, APAC; Marine Shipping, Financial Exchanges & Data; alternative, supply_chain, sentiment, reference; equities, freight_derivatives, commodities.