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The Amendment Problem: Why Ocean Freight Contracts Are Harder to Manage Than You Think

Carriers give you notice before a rate amendment lands. What they don't give you is a system to manage it. Here's what the amendment problem actually costs your team.

Your Contracted Rate Isn't the Market. Here's Why That Gap Costs You.

Your contracted rate looked competitive in April. But the market kept moving. Learn why most procurement teams have a benchmarking gap and what it costs them between tender cycles.

Why Your Ocean Freight Budget Keeps Coming in Over Plan

NYSHEX Appoints Nico Smuts to Board of Directors

Capital markets expert brings deep expertise as NYSHEX scales NYFI, the benchmark underlying ocean freight futures now trading on Intercontinental Exchange (ICE)

Container Freight Futures Are Live. Here's What That Actually Means for Shippers.

Something Changed on April 7, 2026

How to Build an Ocean Freight Rate Intelligence Process

Most procurement teams managing ocean freight do not have a rate intelligence process. They have a collection of habits: checking an index occasionally, asking their forwarder what...

What Is Ocean Freight Rate Intelligence?

The Five Questions Your CFO Will Ask About Freight Hedging and How to Answer Each One

What Changes When You Bring Freight Risk Management to the Table

How Freight Hedging Works Explained in Freight Terms

You Already Practice Risk Management. Here Is the Proof.

Ask an experienced ocean freight procurement manager whether they practice risk management and you will likely get a pause.

From Cost Manager to Risk Manager: The Evolution of Ocean Freight Procurement

There is a particular kind of expertise that does not show up on a resume.

Trust Requires Structure

Why Governance Matters in a Freight Benchmark

Context Turns Data into Insight

Why an Index Alone Is Not Enough

Managing Freight Like a Financial Exposure

Why Hedgeability Matters in a Volatile Shipping Market

Transparency Builds Stability in Volatile Markets

Why Access to an Index Should Not Be Paywalled

Predictability in Volatile Markets Starts with Accuracy

Why an Index Based on Shipped Rates Matters

Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) to Launch NYSHEX Container Freight Futures

Contracts Offer New Tools to Hedge Container Freight Price Risk

From Signals to Decisions: Operationalizing Rate Intelligence

From Rates to Signals: How Leading Teams Read the Freight Market

For decades, freight rates have been treated as answers.

Static Rate Sheets in a Dynamic Freight Market

Every year, freight procurement resets the same way. Shippers and NVOCCs review their lanes. Forecasts are refined based on how sourcing, demand, and inventory are expected to shif...

Plans ≠ Outcomes: Why Freight Budgets Fail After the Contract Is Signed

Execution is where freight problems surface. It’s where teams firefight bookings, manage rollovers, chase capacity, and explain why costs and service didn’t line up with plan. That...

Why We Built a Freight Index for a Volatile Ocean Shipping Market

Volatility didn’t suddenly appear in ocean shipping. It didn’t start with the pandemic, geopolitical disruption, or the latest capacity swing. What changed is that the gap between ...

How Data Empowers Shippers to Reclaim Control in the Ocean Chaos

By Karina Cooper, NYSHEX VP of Commercial

Rethinking Freight: Why It’s Time for Smarter Contracts, Data-Driven Decisions, and a Cultural Shift in Ocean Shipping

By: Martin Coudurier, NYSHEX Director of Commercial

Index-Linked Contracts and 3 Very Important Questions

By: Gordon Downes, NYSHEX CEO and Co-Founder

Why Index Methodology Matters for Index-Linked Contracts

By: Rich Heath, NYSHEX VP of Financial Products

What Even Is an Index-Linked Contract?

By Sarah Conyngham, NYSHEX SVP of Product & Operations

Digitizing Won’t Fix Chaos: Why Ocean Shipping Still Can’t Deliver on Contract Fulfillment

By: Yanzhi Hu, NYSHEX Managing Director, Asia

Would You Bet Your Job on the Container Freight Market? 

By: Jeremy Haycock, NYSHEX Managing Director of Europe