Generic databases answer generic questions.
Trade portals give you a search box and a million rows. What they do not give you is the hour of an analyst who knows which of those rows describe your product, your grade and your route.
A research desk for exporters
Know where your product is going — and who is buying it.
SeaLine turns customs and bill-of-lading records into commissioned reports on the HS codes you ship: the destinations that are growing, the importers behind them, and the price your competitors are landing at.
- HS code coverage
- 6–10 digit
- Standard turnaround
- 7 days
- On every desk
- Named analyst
The problem
Exporters have more data than ever, and less of it is useful.
Buyers are found in the manifests, not in the aggregates.
Country-level totals tell you Vietnam is growing. Bill-of-lading records tell you which importer in Ho Chi Minh City took forty containers last quarter, from whom, and at what declared value.
Pricing intelligence decays in weeks.
Landed prices move with freight, season and the competing origin's harvest. A benchmark from last year is a guess. A benchmark from last month is leverage in your next negotiation.
How the desk works
Commissioned research, not a self-service dashboard.
You bring the question. The desk brings the records, the method and the judgement. Four steps from brief to bound report.
- Step 1
Register your HS codes
Add the codes you export, the origin you ship from and the destinations you care about. Your desk is scoped to exactly these lines.
- Step 2
File a brief
Ask the question you actually have: which buyers are switching origin, what did competitors land at in Rotterdam last quarter, is Chittagong worth a visit.
- Step 3
The desk works the records
Your analyst pulls the customs and manifest data for your codes and period, cleans it, reconciles counterparties and builds the tables.
- Step 4
A typeset report is delivered
A PDF in your archive with the tables, the charts and a written verdict. Every figure is traceable to its source and record count.
Sample edition
Read a report before you commission one.
A real edition from the archive with the client's identifying details removed. Figures are from the period stated; the method is the one every desk uses.
SampleHS 0904.11 — Black Pepper: India Export Destinations, H1 2026
PDF · 4 pagesReports are delivered to your dashboard archive as PDF. See what each desk includes.
What's inside
Every report follows the same six sections.
Consistency is deliberate. When the structure never changes, the reader's attention goes to what has.
Executive summary
The verdict on one page: what changed in the period, what it means for your line, and the one or two actions the desk would take.
Destination ranking
Import volume and value by destination market for your code, with period-on-period change and your origin's share against competing origins.
Buyer register
Named importers reconciled across manifests: shipment count, volume, supplying origins and the shippers they currently buy from.
Price benchmarks
Declared unit values by origin and destination, by month, so you can see where you are priced against Vietnam, Brazil or Indonesia — not just whether.
Monthly trend
Twelve to twenty-four months of volume by corridor, seasonally annotated, to separate structural shifts from a bad quarter.
Sources and method
Every table cites its dataset, period and record count. Cleaning rules, deduplication and currency conversion are stated so the numbers can be challenged.
Pricing
Three desks. One method.
Every desk has a named analyst and the same report structure. Choose by how many product lines you need covered and how quickly.
Standard Desk
Coverage for a focused export line.
$299per month
Billed in advance. Taxes extra.
Start with this desk- Up to 5 tracked HS codes
- 2 commissioned reports per month
- Standard queue — 7 working-day turnaround
- Permanent report archive
Monthly research on up to five HS codes with two commissioned reports per cycle. Suited to exporters concentrating on a single product family.
Professional Desk
Most chosenMulti-line coverage with priority turnaround.
$699per month
Billed in advance. Taxes extra.
Start with this desk- Up to 15 tracked HS codes
- 6 commissioned reports per month
- Priority queue — 3 working-day turnaround
- 1 scheduled analyst call per month
- Permanent report archive
Monthly research on up to fifteen HS codes, six commissioned reports per cycle, priority queueing and a scheduled analyst call each month.
Enterprise Desk
A standing research function for the export house.
$7,900per year
Billed in advance. Taxes extra.
Start with this desk- Up to 50 tracked HS codes
- 60 commissioned reports per year
- Priority queue — 3 working-day turnaround
- 4 scheduled analyst calls per year
- Permanent report archive
Annual engagement covering up to fifty HS codes, sixty commissioned reports across the year, priority queueing and quarterly strategy reviews with the desk.
Need more than fifty codes, or coverage across several origin countries? Write to the desk and we will scope an engagement.
Questions
Before you commission.
Anything not covered here, write to desk@sealine.research and an analyst will answer within one working day.
Our analysts work from customs declarations and bill-of-lading records licensed from national customs authorities and port data providers, cross-referenced with shipping manifests. Every report states its sources, the period covered and the record count behind each table so you can judge the evidence yourself.
Standard requests are delivered within seven working days of submission. Professional and Enterprise desks receive priority queueing with a three-working-day turnaround. Complex briefs spanning many codes or corridors may need longer; your analyst will confirm a date when the request is accepted.
Any code in the Harmonized System at the 6-digit level, and national tariff lines at 8 or 10 digits where the source country publishes them. You register the codes you export from your dashboard; the number you can track at once depends on your plan.
A typeset PDF of roughly twelve to twenty pages: an executive summary, destination and buyer rankings, unit-price benchmarks against competing origins, monthly volume trends and a short analyst verdict. The sample report on this page is a real edition from our archive with the client's identifying details removed.
Subscriptions are billed in advance for each period through Razorpay. Prices are in US dollars. International credit and debit cards are accepted; Indian customers may also pay by UPI or net banking. There is no auto-debit mandate — when a period ends you receive a renewal notice and pay for the next one when you are ready. Unused report allowances do not roll over.
Yes, at any time from the billing page. Your desk stays active until the end of the period you have paid for, and reports already delivered remain in your archive permanently. Refund terms for the current period are set out in our refund policy.
Entirely. Your briefs, tracked codes and delivered reports are visible only to you and the analyst assigned to your desk. We do not resell client-commissioned work or disclose which companies subscribe.
Your first brief can be on an analyst’s desk today.
Open an account, register your codes and file a request. Payment is by card through Razorpay in US dollars, with no standing mandate.