Passage Intelligence · Global Trade. Smart Execution.

Know the passage before you commit the cargo.

Daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly intelligence on maritime chokepoints, ports, freight and fuel markets, air cargo and route risk — read against seven years of history and delivered before the trading day starts.

13
waterways, from Hormuz to Panama
10
container and energy ports
9
cargo airports in the Gulf and Asia
4
cadences, daily to quarterly
BriefingsEvery issue · sources, cut-off dates, labels

One picture of the route, at four distances.

The daily alert says what moved overnight and whether it matters. The weekly reads the closed week against the norm. The monthly carries the full analysis; the quarterly turns it into scenarios and decisions.

DAILY INTELLIGENCE REPORT
Daily Charter & Passage Briefing
Global freight, chokepoints & booking outlook
AR-DCPB-YYYY-DYYYYMMDD
Deliveredevery morning
  • Waterway and port status against the norm
  • Oil, bunker and freight moves since the last print
  • Overnight events with links to the source
  • One- and three-month outlook with intervals
WEEKLY INTELLIGENCE REPORT
Charter & Passage Briefing
Global freight, chokepoints & booking outlook
AR-WCPB-YYYY-WNN
DeliveredMondays, for the closed week
  • Four baselines for every waterway and port
  • Tanker, container, gas and period markets
  • Cargo mix by vessel type, tonnage passability
  • Air cargo capacity at the nine airports
MONTHLY INTELLIGENCE REPORT
Comprehensive Monthly Report
Full analysis, cargo mix, quarterly deltas & three-month outlook
AR-CMR-YYYY-MNN
Delivered1st of the month
  • Month against the same month of 2019–2025
  • Port calls next to official throughput
  • Oil and gas physical flows
  • What happened after the cut-off
QUARTERLY STRATEGIC REVIEW
Quarterly Strategic Review
Quarter scorecard, scenarios, strategic recommendations & six-month outlook
AR-QSR-YYYY-QN
Deliveredstart of the quarter
  • Quarter scorecard against the seasonal norm
  • Base, harder and softer scenarios
  • Decision board: route cost against risk premium
  • Presentation deck for the board
CoverageSea · port · air

The places where a delay becomes a cost.

Every point below is tracked on each cadence: transits and port calls against a seven-year norm, queues at berth, weather at sea, conflict and security notices, and arrivals at the cargo airports that carry the region’s air freight.

Waterways 13

  1. Strait of Hormuz
  2. Bab el-Mandeb
  3. Suez Canal
  4. Panama Canal
  5. Cape of Good Hope
  6. Strait of Malacca
  7. Sunda Strait
  8. Lombok Strait
  9. Bosporus
  10. Øresund
  11. Strait of Gibraltar
  12. Dover Strait
  13. Kerch Strait

Ports 10

  1. Singapore
  2. Port Klang
  3. Tanjung Pelepas
  4. Busan
  5. Jebel Ali
  6. Hong Kong
  7. Shanghai
  8. Ningbo
  9. Rotterdam
  10. Houston

Airports 9

  1. Dubai DXB
  2. Dubai Al Maktoum DWC
  3. Abu Dhabi AUH
  4. Doha DOH
  5. Singapore SIN
  6. Hong Kong HKG
  7. Guangzhou CAN
  8. Kuala Lumpur KUL
  9. Jakarta CGK
MethodHow a number reaches the page

A figure without its source and date is an opinion.

We publish fewer numbers than we collect, and each one arrives with what you need to check it yourself.

Source, cut-off and label on every figure

Each value names its publisher and the date it describes, and says what it is. factestimateforecast

Against the norm, not against yesterday

Transits and port calls are read against the same calendar week of 2019–2025, with the deviation in standard deviations. A quiet Tuesday is not a trend.

Two measures before a status

A collapse in transits is checked against an independent count of vessels present in the area. A reading too far from the norm to confirm is marked unconfirmed, not alarming.

Forecasts with measured intervals

Every outlook carries a range, and how often that range has held on past data is measured and printed beside it.

Prices are orders of magnitude

Broker prints and diversion costs are indications, labelled as estimates with the method beside them — never presented as a quote.

News read for what it changes

Events at the chokepoints, ports, oil markets and regulators are checked every issue and tied to the number they explain — with a link to the original.

Why the history mattersA drop in port calls can sit beside rising throughput: calls count ships, throughput counts cargo. We print both, side by side, wherever an official figure exists.
Cited sourcesOfficial, exchange, broker and press

Waterways & ports

  • IMF PortWatch
  • Suez Canal Authority
  • Panama Canal Authority
  • Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore
  • Port operator releases
  • Global Fishing Watch

Energy & freight

  • ICE and NYMEX settlements
  • US EIA · FRED
  • JODI Oil and JODI Gas
  • Fujairah inventories
  • Drewry WCI · SCFI · Freightos FAX
  • Ship & Bunker · broker weeklies

Risk & security

  • Joint War Committee listed areas
  • US MARAD advisories
  • ReCAAP ISC
  • ACLED
  • OFAC, UK, EU and UN sanctions lists

Air & weather

  • ADS-B flight movements
  • Airport authority statistics
  • IATA jet fuel monitor
  • Open-Meteo · ERA5 reanalysis

Talk to us about your routes.

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Swiss head office

Aurum Rex Services LLCBaarerstrasse 82
6300 Zug, Switzerland
+41 76 455 88 55
zug@aurumrexservices.com

Hong Kong branch

Aurum Rex Services LimitedUnit C, 17/F, United Centre, Suite No. 9183
95 Queensway, Admiralty, Hong Kong
+852 3678 6505
hk@aurumrexservices.com

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