How To Use SeaRates Freight Index? In-Depth Market Analytics

Track changes in freight indexes, analyze the logistics market, and historical freight rates for sea, land, and air freight in real time. Freight Index by SeaRates provides accurate data on freight index and market trends. Perform excellent logistics management for shippers, logistics providers, and analytical companies. Let's improve your analytics with confidence.

How to use Freight Index?

Make sure your supply chain planning is executed properly, effectively, and based on accurate analytics on market index shifts:

• over 10,000,000 tariffs from the past five years

• 1 billion+ route coverage

• 70+ million price points

• 99.99% accuracy of rate forecasting

Start with Trending indexes, including average spot rates data on popular destinations. Scroll to the sides to find more.

Moving forward, choose the Shipping and Transport Unit types in both dropdown lists. For shipping, sea (FCL, LCL, Bulk), land (FTL, FCL, LTL), rail (FWL, LWL, FCL, FTL), and air (standard cargo and ULD container) are available.

Freight Index is available in two plans - Default and Premium:

Below, you’ll find the Default and Premium feature comparisons.

Default features

Check freight indexes by a particular world region. Under the Default subscription, you have access to indexes searching by global areas, continents, subregions, and coasts.

Just choose the ‘From’/‘To’ points with interactive world map autodetection powered by SeaRates Autocomplete.

You get the results of freight index changes as increased, decreased, or flat prices for the transportation route (mentioned From and To points), or separately from or to a particular area/region/city/etc.

Moreover, here you can expand the market research and get index shift analytics for the last 3 months:

Also, share your results with customers, partners, or social media followers to complete your report updates or insights takeaways:

Premium features

In the addition of Default functionality, you can get the following enhancements:

• comparing the freight indexes by time ranges;

• accessing the deeper and more detailed searching by geography levels;

• searching index by Carriers;

• checking the history of freight indexes for 6 months, 1 year, and a particular date, as well as picking the period in the calendar;

• downloading the result data in a convenient format.

As a Premium user, you can cover index research by countries, states, provinces, cities, ports, airports, and stations.

Choose a particular carrier to get detailed statistics, as well as pick ‘All carriers’ for ‘Shipping line not selected’ options.

Moreover, compare indexes by weeks, months, and years for extensive analytics.

Additionally, select the currency type in the dropdown list for displaying the appropriate one for you.

Simply set notifications on changes per freight index and download results on your research.

Looking for benefits details? Find a description and Frequently Asked Questions about Freight Index right under the tool.

White-label integration

Interested in the upselling capabilities of market in-depth index analytics? Integrate the Freight Index functionalities as a customized white-labeled solution on your website.

Engage the audience with advanced benchmarking under your brand. Reduce the need to reach for market information on your competitors’ sources as much as possible.

API connection

All Premium features are available for Freight Index API integration into your CRM/ERP/TMS systems. Connect to the SeaRates global database to provide market insights under your brand.

Kindly check the API documentation for the Freight Index in our Developer Portal. There is all general information and detailed descriptions of requests you can submit, tailored to your particular needs.

Find Your Customized Freight Index Plan

You’re always welcome to let us know about your requirements by filling out the Request an IT Quote form or reaching out to us at [email protected] for a tailored solution.