
GENERATE
SALES
LEADS

Identify prospective customers, discover untapped markets, and expand your services to importers and exporters.
OBTAIN
COMPETITIVE INTELLIGENCE

Gain insight into the global trade activity of a target organization.
IDENTIFY
BUYERS & SUPPLIERS

With trade data from 170 countries, optimize the supply chain by identifying buyers and suppliers in your industry.
CONDUCT
MARKET RESEARCH

Customized import and export information at your fingertips. Focus on the global trade information that meets your unique needs.
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PIERS is the most comprehensive database of U.S. waterborne trade activity in the world providing information services to thousands of subscribers globally. Our business intelligence tools and solutions are based on PIERS unique infrastructure and proprietary technology that allows PIERS to not only publish import data but also complete coverage of US export transactional data. Complementing our unrivaled U.S. trade intelligence, our international trade data spans the globe covering every major world economy - with an emphasis on significant trading partners and emerging source regions in Asia and South America, such as China, India and Brazil. |
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What Customers Say About PIERS
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See What's Inside the Boxes Randy Fischer, Port of Portland explains how PIERS intelligence helps his organization identify marketplace trends and get a clear view of the goods passing through Portland and who is shipping them. The flexibility of PIERS products allows anyone to easily access prepared reports and to customize reporting as his or her knowledge deepens and needs change. |
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Understand Your Customer Kevin Burwell, Director of Foreign Trade Zone Services at the Virginia Port Authority describes how the VPA uses PIERS solutions to better understand its customers, stay ahead of competition, and look for new opportunities. |
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Data In Motion
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PIERS In The News
U.S. Container Import Estimate Cut on 'Stubbornly Slow' Economic Recovery "The projected growth for next year would still be higher than this year’s estimated 2.2 percent gain, and a three-year contraction that ended with a 15 percent slump in 2009, according to data from Newark, New Jersey-based PIERS, a unit of UBM Global. Imports will reach 17.4 million twenty-foot- equivalent units next year, compared with 16.9 million in 2011." Read More at Bloomberg
U.S. Firms Shipped Teargas to Egypt During Crackdown, Investigation Reveals "Amnesty said the company had also sent a shipment of 21 tonnes of ammunition to Egypt – enough for 40,000 rounds of tear gas grenades and cannisters – on 8 April from Wilmington, North Carolina, and another shipment of 17.9 tonnes from New York on 8 August. According to the commercial trade database Piers, both were listed under the product code of bullets, cartridges and shells, but the New York was also described as 'ammunition smoke'." Read More at The Guardian
Where to Find Overseas Buyers "Commodity codes will allow you to use the PIERS database to identify a good deal of very specific information about the market for your products. That information can help you focus your international sales efforts strategically." Read More at Bloomberg BusinessWeek
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