Maritime & Trade: Trade Data

GTAS is the most comprehensive, intuitive, and powerful trade research tool on the market. Our suite of trade products delivers decision ready intelligence through analytics that have been built to evaluate global trade, commodity values, and identify companies involved in trade activity. The platform combines three longstanding and established trade products: Global Trade Atlas macro trade statistics; PIERS Bill of Lading data, and GTA Forecasting. Our clients can easily crosswalk between trade data sets to derive deep insights into trade activity.

GTA is built upon high-quality officially sourced trade data from around the world combined with rigorous data vetting and integration processes that are ISO certified to ISO9001:2015. GTA is the market-leading solution for access to a comprehensive view of global trade data in every commodity at the most detailed level of harmonized code system (HS code). GTA encompasses dependable monthly bilateral trade data for 102 countries and annual data for close to 200 countries based on official imports and exports.

Access annual long-term trade and transportation outlook until the year 2035 and quarterly forecast for eight quarters ahead, both providing extensive coverage of 248 countries and regions, across 270 commodities and 16 trade concepts. GTAS Forecasting provides data and analytics for three main transportation modes with the Seaborne Trade broken down further into four cargo types and Overland/Other transport mode divided into Rail, Road, Inland Waterway and Other for selected trade routes. Leverage the most advanced modelling techniques and the world’s largest trade database to ensure an accurate, consistent market view.

PIERS is the leading provider of import and export data at the detailed, bill-of-lading level – a heritage rooted in 40 years of amassing the industry's largest US waterborne trade data set. PIERS integrates transactional trade data with standardized company details so you can identify imports and exports by company.