A carrier-contributed global container trade statistics dataset

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A carrier-contributed global container trade statistics dataset: billable TEU volumes cut across 7 trade regions, 529 sub-regions and over 125,000 port pairs with a dry/reefer split as standard, plus companion global freight Price Indices built from actual invoiced freight rates (not quoted rates) at regional and sub-regional level with dry and reefer splits. Stated scale anchors: ~17.3M TEU moved monthly and ~198M TEU annually, with headline monthly trade-shift, regional-shift and index-swing statistics. Composition is disclosed as ~75% member-carrier-contributed data plus ~25% market estimates to reconcile to a global total. Contributing carriers include CMA CGM, COSCO, Evergreen, Hapag-Lloyd, HMM, Maersk, MSC, ONE, Gold Star Line, ESL and Messina Line.

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Industry: Marine ShippingData Processing & Outsourced Services
Instruments: equitiescommoditiesfreight_derivatives
Categories: AlternativeFundamentalSupply ChainReferencePrice
Regions: OtherUSJapanEurope
Sample tickers: ZIMMATXSGLPPL.NZCMA.PAHAFK.OL2615.T

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Format: Tabular volume and index datasets delivered under subscription with report exports in Excel and Power BI-ready formats and feed integration for building custom weekly or monthly reporting; regions, sub-regions and a port-pair grid with a dry/reefer dimension
Volume: Very large in dimension space: 7 regions, 529 sub-regions and >125,000 port pairs, each with a dry/reefer split on a monthly cycle — order 3×10^5 lane series per month at port-pair level with the equipment cut, ~3.6×10^6 series-observations per year. Underlying measured throughput is ~17.3M TEU/month and ~198M TEU/year (stated), implying a manifest-level substrate of order 10^8 movement records annually before aggregation.
Users: est. low hundreds of licensed subscriber organisations (inferred: a 9-person UK subscription information service funded by carrier members plus paid data purchasers, distributing reports to member lines and commercial subscribers — an account-based model with no self-serve registration)
History: 10 years
Update frequency: not stated
Growth: Active — 'Latest Market Highlights – July 2026' headline panel refreshed on a monthly cycle, with the contributor-roster artwork updated in February 2026 (new Messina Line entry) and a September 2026 conference placement added
Launched: est. 2013-2016 for the CTS consortium service in its current form (a UK limited company in Woking running an information service, with a mature carrier-contributed panel and index series). No founding year is printed on the site — request the incorporation and first-publication dates to firm this up.
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