ci-online is the ultimate research tool if you are involved in the liner shipping or associated industries. Its comprehensive data is dynamically updated on a constant basis, maintaining the high editorial standards of Containerisation International magazine and yearbook.

Business News

A sophisticated daily news service has been established by ci-online with a team of correspondents located world-wide covering all the major regional container shipping locations in Asia, the US, Europe and on the north/south and cross trades, as well as major east/west routes. Regularly updated news online offers readers up-to-the minute reports on major industry events. With its comprehensive coverage the award winning news service has quickly established itself as a major force in the industry.

CI Library

The Containerisation International magazine library provides you with instant access to the magazines articles, back to 1994, all searchable on keywords or by article date.

Services

ci-online presently analyses thousands of service routes, covering the entire globe. The facility to search these services as a whole, or in part through port-to-port search, presents you with the most comprehensive set of impartial data available on the web. The search results will provide you with not only a port rotation, but also frequency, day of calling, transit time, service partners, vessel deployed and service notes. Furthermore, there is a facility to search services via ci-online’s transit analyser. The results will produce a transit time (in days) between any given port selection.

Transit Analyser

There is a powerful tool within ci-online to match ocean carriers services against each other. From a pre-determined origin and destination, the database will draw together all available carriers and supply you with transit times and day of calling. This is an invaluable tool when researching how competitive individual carriers or alliances really are.

Ports

The ci-online database provides you with comprehensive information on the worlds top 350 container ports and terminals. It provides terminal data, direct call services plus individual contacts. There is also archived throughput information dating back to 1970.

Conferences and Alliances

ci-online provides the service and vessel listings of all the major liner-alliances. There is also information on some of the lesser-known alliances, over 123 conference, alliance and rate agreements are detailed. Anybody involved in operations or marketing will find this information useful and as far as we know, ci-online is the only online information service to list so many liner conferences.

Fleet Statistics

Fleets statistics are one of the most comprehensive set of information available within ci-online. The data provided in fleet statistics will be of interest to a broad spectrum of industry personnel, including, marketing, operations and business planning. This section supplies a daily update of world ranking (based on TEU carrying capacity), vessels in operation and vessels on order, presently covering over 500 shipping lines. Users are able to refine their search through headings such as vessel type, size or age. Additionally, there is an archive history dating back to July 1999.

Ship Fleet

The ci-online ship fleet section presently has over 7,000 live vessels in operation. It is fully searchable and provides you with all the technical details together with deployment information and detailed ownership data such as operator, beneficial owner and registered owner. Other details include IMO number, service speed and flag. Additionally this section is further enhanced by the newbuild search, enabling users to research who is currently building what.

Fleet Deployment

Fleet deployment gives you the ability to search on a country by country basis or region by region basis and the results will provide the total number of vessels and TEU deployed. There is also the ability to search on all carriers or by individual carriers.

Freight Rates

Freight rate data provide a comprehensive report of price trends in the major east-west trades, including Transpacific, Transatlantic and Europe Asia. The data goes back to 1993.

Shipping Lines

The corporate profile of over 500 shipping lines supplies key facts and figures by individual ocean carrier. For example, there is five-years of financial data, a full directory of agency networks, a complete listing of global services, vessel fleet and much more. All of this data is dynamically searchable. Ultimately developed to simplify your search on container fleet, ocean carriers or liner services, this advanced software will produce instant results in a user-friendly format.

Deployment Stats

ci-online has identified 178 specific trade routes within the deployment statistics section, which will aggregate the number of vessels, deployed on a given route with TEU capacity. This information is also archived on a monthly basis. This facility provides invaluable information for a business development unit researching market trend analysis.

Container traffic

Originally taken from the Containerisation International Yearbook, ci-online archives global container traffic statistics from 1970 to the present year.