The Drewry Container Port Throughput Indices are a series of volume growth/decline indices based on monthly throughput data for a sample of over 220 ports worldwide, representing over 75% of global volumes. The base point for the indices is January 2012 = 100.
Drewry’s latest assessment - October 2017
In August 2017 the Drewry global container port throughput index reached 126.8 points, an all-time high since the inception of the index i.e. Jan 2012.
The August 2017 figure was nearly 7 points up on the August 2016 figure and more than 11 points up on the August 2015 level of around 116 points.
The index figures for China and Europe were slightly lower than the previous month but show a more than 5% annual increase.
All regions showed at least 5% annual growth in August 2017. However, 2016 was a weak comparison in many cases. Africa is showing double digit annual growth but note that the sample size is small.
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