Sea-Intelligence
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Sea-Intelligence is a maritime research, data, and advisory firm specializing in container shipping and global supply chains. It publishes recurring analysis of liner schedule reliability, vessel delays, freight-market conditions, service deployment, and available capacity, and supplies custom datasets to shipping-industry participants.[1]
The business was established in January 2011 as SeaIntel by Alan Murphy and Lars Jensen, according to its corporate history, and later adopted the Sea-Intelligence name.[2] It operates through entities in Singapore and Copenhagen and addresses carriers, cargo owners, ports, analysts, investors, and other ocean-supply-chain stakeholders.[1]
What It Does
Sea-Intelligence transforms vessel schedules, arrival records, service networks, and other liner-shipping information into benchmarks and market analysis. Its work addresses schedule reliability, delays, deployed capacity, blank sailings, transit times, carrier-service changes, freight rates, cargo volumes, and the balance between vessel supply and transport demand.[1][3]
The firm sells both standardized publications and work tailored to a customer's requested carrier, trade lane, port pair, region, or period. Advisory services add interpretation by staff with experience in liner operations, network planning, freight management, and commercial shipping.[2]
Data and Methodology
Global Liner Performance measures whether container vessels arrive in accordance with published schedules and reports average delays. Sea-Intelligence says the monthly study uses more than 12,000 distinct vessel arrivals, covers more than 60 carriers and 300 services or loops, and divides results among 34 trade lanes.[1][3] These coverage figures and the resulting reliability measures are produced by the company.
Trade Capacity Outlook is forward-looking. It uses named vessel schedules issued by carriers to calculate week-by-week deployment across 19 major deep-sea trade lanes for the following 12 weeks.[3] Unlike a historical arrival measure, scheduled future capacity can change through blank sailings, vessel substitutions, revised rotations, or delayed departures, so users should treat it as an updated outlook rather than guaranteed supply.
Custom datasets cover reliability, delays, capacity, vessel deployment, alliances, vessel-sharing agreements, slot charters, port rotations, transit times, and vessel particulars. The company states that many series begin in January 2012 and that selected deployment data extend approximately three months forward.[3]
Reports and Data Services
Sunday Spotlight is a weekly analytical publication covering macroeconomic conditions, supply and demand, freight rates, performance measures, cargo volumes, transit times, deployment, and announced service changes. Global Liner Performance is issued monthly as a report with an accompanying spreadsheet. Trade Capacity Outlook is issued weekly and focuses on forthcoming vessel capacity.[1][3]
The standardized reports provide a common benchmark across carriers and trade lanes, while custom data services allow a narrower extraction. This distinction enables a cargo owner to compare carrier reliability, a port to examine inbound or outbound performance, or an analyst to construct a historical capacity series without buying only a narrative report.
Delivery and Pricing
The official services page lists annual subscription starting prices of EUR 1,800 for 52 Sunday Spotlight issues, EUR 2,000 for 12 Global Liner Performance issues, and EUR 2,200 for 52 Trade Capacity Outlook issues. It states that reports may be shared without restriction within the subscribing company; custom data is quoted on request.[3] Prices are provider-published and may change.
Buyers and Use Cases
Cargo owners can benchmark carriers and trade lanes, evaluate schedule risk, and support freight procurement. Carriers and ports can compare operational performance or planned capacity, while analysts and investors can monitor changes in vessel supply and freight-market conditions. Advisory users may apply the data to network, contract, or supply-chain decisions.[1]
Sea-Intelligence measures are also used in maritime reporting. A gCaptain search for the company returns numerous articles concerning blank sailings, service reliability, capacity changes, rates, and port congestion, demonstrating independent use of its analysis in shipping news.[4] Publication by a news outlet does not independently audit the underlying methodology, but it establishes the firm's role as an industry data source.
History and Organization
Sea-Intelligence's account says Murphy and Jensen founded SeaIntel in January 2011 to provide documented methods and comparable liner-performance benchmarks. Murphy previously worked in Maersk Line's intelligence and analysis function.[2] The current team page identifies Murphy as chief executive and founder and lists analysts responsible for collecting, validating, and producing the reliability and capacity reports.[2]
The official site lists Sea-Intelligence Pte Ltd in Singapore and Sea-Intelligence ApS in Copenhagen.[1] No public ownership, revenue, or financing figures were verified in the sources consulted, and none are asserted here.