Sea‑Intelligence

What Sea‑Intelligence does

Sea-Intelligence is a privately held maritime data analytics and advisory firm founded in January 2011 by Alan Murphy (formerly Senior Analyst at Maersk Line's Intelligence & Analysis section) and industry veteran Lars Jensen. The company provides Research & Analysis, Data Services, and Advisory Services focused on the global container shipping industry, serving shipping lines, freight forwarders, logistics companies, ports, and other supply chain stakeholders across global markets. Its core analytical platform is built on a proprietary database tracking 12,000+ distinct vessel arrivals per month across 60+ carriers, 300+ liner services, and 34 trade lanes since January 2012.

The company's product portfolio consists of three subscription reports: Global Liner Performance (GLP), a monthly benchmark of ocean liner schedule reliability; Sea-Intelligence Sunday Spotlight, a weekly analytical report covering macro-economics, supply/demand, freight rates, and deployment metrics; and Trade Capacity Outlook (TCO), the industry's only forward-looking 12-week capacity deployment report across 19 major deep-sea trade lanes. A Custom Data Services offering extends the platform into tailored datasets on vessel deployment, blank sailings, alliances, and port-pairs. The company is headquartered in Singapore (Sea-Intelligence Pte Ltd) with offices in Copenhagen (Sea-Intelligence ApS) and Hong Kong, and operates with a small specialist team of shipping analysts under senior leadership drawn from Maersk, UASC, Hapag Lloyd, MSC, and Damco.

Sea-Intelligence generates revenue through annual subscriptions priced in euros (GLP from €2,000/year, TCO from €2,200/year, Sunday Spotlight from €1,800/year) plus custom data services sold on inquiry. The go-to-market is sales-led and direct: customers initiate purchases via email contact, and subscriptions include unrestricted internal sharing within the subscriber organization. Distribution is global with no geographic restrictions, supported by a content marketing strategy built around sample reports, an active press room, and the company's website. No institutional investors, parent company, or external funding are disclosed; the firm operates as an independent, bootstrapped specialist analytics provider.

Name

Sea‑Intelligence

Legal name

Sea-Intelligence Pte Ltd

Website

https://sea-intelligence.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2011

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Maritime Analytics

NAICS

Support Activities for Water Transportation (4883)

akta.pro primary industry

Ocean Container Visibility (Vessel, Container, Demurrage/Detention) (TLAEADAF)

Keywords

• Container shipping analytics
• Maritime data analysis
• Schedule reliability research
• Supply chain advisory
• Shipping market intelligence

Headquarters

HQ city

Copenhagen

HQ country

Denmark

HQ region

Europe

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Report Subscriptions: Annual subscription-based revenue model providing access to analytical reports and data services. Subscriptions include unrestricted sharing within the subscribing company.
2. Custom Data Services: Custom data services providing schedule reliability, vessel delays, capacity supply, deployment, blank sailings, vessel operators, service deployment, alliance data, vessel particulars, and other operational metrics across various scopes and time periods since January 2012.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Sea-Intelligence provides subscription-based Research & Analysis, Data Services, and Advisory Services for the global container shipping industry. Its core product set comprises Global Liner Performance (GLP), a monthly schedule reliability benchmark; Sea-Intelligence Sunday Spotlight, a weekly analytical report covering macro, supply/demand, freight rates, performance, volumes, transit times and deployment; and Trade Capacity Outlook (TCO), a 12-week forward capacity deployment report. Custom Data Services deliver tailored datasets on vessel schedules, blank sailings, alliances and operations.

Product overview

Sea-Intelligence offers a portfolio of three core analytical products focused on container shipping intelligence. The Sunday Spotlight is the flagship weekly analytical report covering all major market drivers. Global Liner Performance (GLP) is the comprehensive monthly benchmark for schedule reliability across 60+ carriers and 34 trade lanes. Trade Capacity Outlook (TCO) provides forward-looking capacity deployment data across 19 major trade lanes. Custom Data Services complement the standard reports with tailored data solutions for specific analytical needs.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Global Liner Performance (GLP) The industry's most comprehensive study of ocean liner schedule reliability, measuring schedule reliability and vessel delays across all deep-sea liner services. Based on more than 12,000 vessel arrivals each month, covering 60+ container carriers in 34 different trade lanes across more than 300 liner services/loops. Designed for shipping lines, freight forwarders, ports and other container shipping stakeholders that need verified, comparable reliability benchmarks.
• Sea-Intelligence Sunday Spotlight The leading weekly analytical report covering the container shipping industry, published every Sunday evening. Features three main independent analytical articles covering macro-economics, Supply/Demand, freight rate developments, performance metrics, volume developments, transit times and deployment, plus an editorial discussing major market developments. Designed for stakeholders needing continuous market intelligence on container shipping.
• Trade Capacity Outlook (TCO) The liner shipping industry's only forward-looking capacity deployment report, based on actual named vessel schedules. Provides data on week-by-week capacity deployment in the world's 19 major container trade lanes, with historical year-on-year perspective and forward-looking data on capacity variations up to 12 weeks ahead. Used by shipping lines and other supply-chain stakeholders needing forward capacity visibility.
• Custom Data Services Tailored data services covering schedule reliability and vessel delays, global and trade weekly capacity supply, vessel deployment, blank sailings, extra-loaders, vessel operators, capacity market shares, service deployment, Alliances, VSAs, slot charters, port-pairs, transit times, and container vessel particulars data across various scopes and time periods since January 2012. Designed for enterprises needing bespoke analytics beyond off-the-shelf reports.

Quantifiable outcome

• Global schedule reliability metrics tracked monthly across 60+ carriers and 34 trade lanes

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves1 record

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Drewry: Drewry is a London-based maritime research and consulting firm supplying supply-chain advisory, freight rate intelligence, and liner market analysis. It is the closest direct competitor to Sea-Intelligence in container shipping research and advisory, with overlapping target customers (shipping lines, forwarders, ports, BCOs) and similar subscription-based reports.
• Xeneta: Xeneta is a Norwegian ocean and air freight rate benchmarking platform that crowdsources and verifies contracted freight rates from shippers and forwarders. It is directly comparable in offering data-driven subscription intelligence to forwarders, BCOs, and shipping lines — though with stronger emphasis on freight rates rather than schedule reliability and capacity.
• eeSea: eeSea is a Copenhagen-based maritime data and analytics firm specialising in container liner schedule tracking, vessel deployment, and alliance analysis. It is one of the closest competitors to Sea-Intelligence in the schedule reliability and capacity deployment space, with a similar B2B subscription model targeting the same liner industry customers.

Broad incumbents

• Clarksons Research: Clarksons Research is the research arm of Clarkson PLC and the largest incumbent in shipping intelligence, covering shipbroking, offshore, and container markets with both data services and analytical reports. It competes with Sea-Intelligence primarily in the container shipping research segment but operates with vastly broader scope and scale (brokers, offshore, sale-and-purchase).
• Kuehne+Nagel (KN) Analytics: Kuehne+Nagel is one of the world's largest freight forwarders with internal analytics and market intelligence units serving shippers and LSPs. While its data products are largely captive, its published market updates and visibility dashboards overlap with Sea-Intelligence's customer-facing intelligence, particularly for large BCOs evaluating third-party analytics.

Emerging players

• Vizor Software (Ports & Maritime): Vizor provides real-time container-level visibility and port performance analytics to terminals, shipping lines, and BCOs. While its core focus is port-side operational data, it overlaps with Sea-Intelligence on schedule reliability and capacity visibility — and it is increasingly expanding into the same maritime analytics space.
• project44: project44 is a leading supply chain visibility platform covering ocean, road, rail, and air transport with multimodal tracking and ETA prediction. It overlaps with Sea-Intelligence specifically in its ocean container visibility module, serving many of the same forwarder and BCO buyers — but with a much broader multi-modal scope.
• MarineTraffic: MarineTraffic operates a global AIS-based vessel tracking platform providing ship positions, port arrivals, and route analytics, with paid data services for commercial users. It is comparable as a maritime data infrastructure provider, though its data is real-time AIS-based rather than schedule-reliability focused; it could be a complementary or competitive data source for Sea-Intelligence's analytics.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/seaintel-maritime-analysis

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles8 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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