June 17, 2013, Melbourne, Australia – The KPI Institute, the global authority on Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) research and education announces the launch of a new report in its 2011-2012 edition of its popular Top 25 series of reports. The series is based on research conducted through www.smartKPIs.com, which contains over 20,000 Key Performance Indicator examples, making it the world’s largest source of thoroughly documented KPIs.

Marine transport and shipping include the transport of passengers or freight over water, whether scheduled or not. It also includes the operation of towing or pushing boats, trips, cruises or sightseeing boats, ferries, water taxis. KPIs focus on all transportation operations (embarking, billing, transfer, debarking).

The Top 25 Shipping KPIs of 2011-2012 report compiles the most popular 25 KPIs used by the Shipping function. The methodology used to conduct the research consisted of ranking the KPI examples published in the Shipping industry of smartKPIs.com, based on their number of views in 2011. Out of the more than 230 Shipping KPIs available on smartKPIs.com, the 25 most viewed by the members and visitors of smartKPIs.com were selected and analyzed in detail in this report.

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