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Trade databases give you a million rows. They don't give you someone who knows which rows are your product, your grade and your route — and what they add up to.
Trade-data research for exporters
SeaLines reads the customs and shipping records for the products you export and turns them into a clear monthly report: which markets are growing, who the buyers are, what they pay, and who else is selling there.
123
filings read — all of them
34
destination markets, one month
8
sections, same every report
7 days
question to finished report
Routes drawn from the sample report — Indonesian and Ugandan beans into six markets.
Markets in the sample
+ 24 more · 34 in total
The problem
Trade databases give you a million rows. They don't give you someone who knows which rows are your product, your grade and your route — and what they add up to.
Country totals tell you Vietnam is growing. Shipping records tell you which importer in Ho Chi Minh City took forty containers last quarter, who sold them, and at what price.
Freight, season and a rival country's harvest all move prices. Last year's price is a guess. Last month's price is leverage in your next negotiation.
How it works
No dashboards to learn, no data to clean. Four steps from your question to a finished report.
Add your HS codes, where you ship from and the markets you care about. Your desk covers exactly these — nothing else.
The real one. Which buyers are switching suppliers? What did competitors sell for in Rotterdam last quarter? Is Chittagong worth a visit?
They pull every customs and shipping record for your codes and period, clean the data, match buyers to sellers, and build the tables.
A PDF in your archive with the tables, the charts and a clear written verdict. Every figure shows where it came from.
Watch a report come together
123 matched · 123 read
names matched · related parties split
17 pages · 8 sections
Trade by declared unit price
share of value
| Below $5 | 1.1% | |
|---|---|---|
| $5 – $25 | 0.4% | |
| $25 – $60 | 86.2% | |
| $60 and above | 6.8% |
Finding 01Two buyers took 64% of the month’s value. Any approach to this market starts from that fact.
The product
Each report lands as a PDF in your archive with a delivery email — and stays there after your plan ends.
Requests are written questions, not forms. Your analyst accepts, confirms a date, and replies from the same thread.
Pay through Razorpay in rupees or US dollars — card, UPI, net banking or bank transfer. Renew when you're ready; nothing is taken automatically.
Reports
Your archive
Vanilla Beans, HS 0905.10 — Monthly Market Assessment, December 2025
VB/2512/S1 · 17 pages · delivered
Which buyers switched from Ugandan origin in Q1?
request · with analyst · due in 4 days
Sample report
Our December 2025 vanilla report, exactly as sent to the client: 17 pages, all 123 of that month's customs filings read one by one. Only the client's details are changed.
Read the five findings and what we recommended in this report, or see what each plan includes.
What's inside
The layout never changes, so you can go straight to what's new. Open the sample report — its contents page is this list.
The answer first, on one page, with the key numbers: total value, volume, typical price and range, top markets, and how many sellers control the trade.
Which filings we pulled, how many we read (all of them, no sampling), and how we handled values, weights and shipping documents.
Value by country, then the details that matter: markets served by a single supplier, unusual shipments, direct-to-consumer sales, and the biggest named buyers.
Typical price and range by market, how much trade happens at each price level, and the level that matters most — with a recommended offer price.
Who the exporters are, which countries they ship from, how big their shipments are, and which rivals you need to beat — named.
Whatever the month throws up. In the sample: a second product shipping under the same code, inflating the tonnage by 27 percent.
Numbered, specific, priced actions. Written for a seller; a buyer can flip them. A twelve-month chart puts the month in context.
What the data can't tell you, said plainly. Every destination market with its counts. Every term explained.
Proof
Four findings from the Vanilla Beans, HS 0905.10 report — every one traceable to the filings behind it.
Read from 27 bulk filings in the $25–60 price range, not the all-market median. Below $45 a seller is competing on Uganda's terms.
One bought five shipments from a single Indonesian exporter in one week; the other took three identical 7,500 kg shipments on the 9th, 16th and 23rd.
Same supplier, same weight, same route — $28.18 to $32.14. A supply signal, flagged as the month's clearest early warning.
Twelve filings under $5/kg were flavour powder moving between related companies. Anyone sizing this market by tonnage was wrong by a wide margin.
Client feedback
Named with their permission. Feedback is summarised from what they told us; quotation marks appear only around a client’s own words.
Genuine data — real filings, no guesswork.
What Sabuhi valued was that every record was a real filing, not an estimate — accurate enough to put straight into his work.
Service that felt like a colleague, not a vendor.
Yasser's feedback was about how he was treated: questions answered plainly, updates without chasing, and someone on the other end who understood the trade.
Delivered fast, and still right.
Ali needed the data quickly and got it quickly — and made a point of saying that speed hadn't come at the cost of accuracy.
Trusted enough to build decisions on.
For Leong Hong it came down to trust: data he could take into a meeting and stand behind, delivered when it was promised.
From the desk
Short, practical notes from our published reports: prices, buyers, market size and how we work.
Twenty-seven percent of December's declared vanilla weight wasn't vanilla beans. Anyone averaging across the code would have been badly wrong — in a predictable direction.
Declared value divided by declared weight is the closest thing to a real market price in the public record. It's also easy to misread. Here's how we handle it.
A buyer with proven demand and no second supplier is the pattern shipping records reveal best. The pitch to make to them isn't about price.
Questions
Not answered here? Write to support@sealines.co.in and an analyst will reply within one working day.
From real customs declarations and bills of lading — the paperwork filed every time a shipment crosses a border. We license them from customs and port data providers. Nothing is a survey or an estimate. Every report says how many filings we found, how many we read (all of them), the period covered, and how many records sit behind each table.
Seven working days from the day you ask. Professional and Enterprise plans get priority and receive reports in three working days. A very large question — many codes or many routes — may take longer; your analyst will confirm the date when they accept it.
Any product with a 6-digit HS code, and the more detailed 8- or 10-digit national codes where the source country publishes them. You add your codes from your dashboard. How many you can track at once depends on your plan.
Start with the companies already importing it. Customs and shipping records show which importers bought your product last month, how often, from whom and at what price. That gives you a short list of proven buyers — including the ones relying on a single supplier — and a price to quote. That list is the core of every SeaLines report.
Yes. Tell us your product or HS code and the market, and the report names the importers buying it there, who supplies them and what they paid. We cover any origin and any destination. How much detail each country publishes varies, and every report says exactly what the records do and don't show.
A bill of lading is the shipping document issued for every sea shipment. Together with customs declarations, it records who sent the goods, who received them, what was shipped, how much, and — in customs filings — the declared value. Read for one HS code across a month, these records show the real buyers, sellers and prices in a market.
A trade database gives you raw rows to search and clean yourself. SeaLines gives you the answer: an analyst reads every filing for your codes, removes the errors, matches buyers to sellers and writes a report with named buyers, prices, competitors and specific recommendations.
A PDF of fifteen to twenty pages, always in the same eight sections: summary and findings, what we looked at, destination markets, prices, competitors, special findings, what we recommend, and limits — plus a full appendix of every market and a list of definitions. The sample on this site is a complete December 2025 report with only the client's details changed.
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Pricing
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