What's in a SeaLines monthly report

The layout is the same on purpose. A client who reads a vanilla report in December and a cardamom report in March should find the same section in the same place. Here is the structure every SeaLines report follows, illustrated with the December 2025 vanilla report.

The eight sections

• 1 — Summary and findings. The answer first, on one page, with the key numbers: value, weight, typical price and range, number of markets, and how concentrated the exporters are.
• 2 — What we looked at. Exactly which filings we pulled, how many we read (all of them — no sampling), how filings relate to bills of lading, and how values and weights are handled.
• 3 — Destination markets. Value by country, then the details worth more attention than their size — markets with one supplier, unusual shipments, direct-to-consumer sales.
• 4 — Prices. Typical price and range by market, trade by price band, and the band that actually matters commercially.
• 5 — Competitors. Exporter share, origin-country share, shipment size, and the named rivals you need to beat.
• 6 — Special findings. Whatever the month throws up. In December it was a second product moving under the same code.
• 7 — What we recommend. Numbered, specific, priced. Written for a seller; a buyer can flip them.
• 8 — Limits. What the data can't tell you, said plainly. In December: Madagascar's near-absence was a gap in the data, not a market finding.

The appendices

Appendix A lists every destination market in the period with its value, filings, tonnes, typical price, number of exporters, share of filings naming the buyer, and a tier. Appendix B defines every term the report uses — declared value, filing versus bill of lading, median, bulk industrial band — so nothing in the report rests on an undefined word.

Page two carries a document-control table: product, origins, destinations examined, period requested, filings matched, filings read, bills of lading, and status. If you want to reproduce a figure, everything you need is on page two.

Our recommendations are informed opinions on the evidence available on the date of issue. Confirm tariff classification and regulatory requirements with a licensed customs broker before you commit to anything.