Alan Murphy

Sea-Intelligence Consulting

Co-Founder and CEO

Alan Murphy is Co-Founder and CEO, at Sea-Intelligence. A deeply passionate liner shipping expert, Murphy has 18 years of experience in container shipping research and analysis, providing insight and intelligence to a broad range of stakeholders in the logistics community, through quantitative research, econometric modeling, and database architecture development. Murphy co-founded SeaIntel, now Sea-Intelligence, with industry legend Lars Jensen in 2011, to provide exceptional and insightful liner shipping analysis and advice, always based on a clearly stated and comprehensive methodology. Prior to the launch, he was senior analyst of Maersk Line’s Intelligence and Analysis section, at that time the industry’s largest customer of industry analysis, research, and market data. The frustration with the poorly sourced back-of-envelope style of analysis often found in this industry, and a lack of comparable, verified benchmarks of liner performance, was the spark that would lead to the creation of Sea-Intelligence, which now covers Research & Analysis, Data Services, and Advisory Services. Murphy has a degree in business economics, and previously worked as a research analyst at the Copenhagen Business School. He is fluent in seven primary programming languages and has developed everything from simple business apps to full-stack enterprise database systems.