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How to Read Ocean Freight Market Signals Together
Capacity, forward curves, schedule reliability: each one tells you something different. Read only one and you'll miss the setup for the next GRI weeks before it lands.
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How to Give Your CFO a Real Number for Ocean Freight Spend
The Problem: Ocean Freight Budgets Are Educated Guesses When a CFO asks for a firm projection of ocean freight spend over the next 12 to 18 months, the honest answer from most logi...
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How to Audit Your Ocean Freight Invoices
Your freight invoice should be predictable. You have a contract. You know your lanes. You know your carrier. The number at the bottom should not surprise you. If it does, you are n...
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Ocean Freight Indices Explained: SCFI, WCI, FBX, NYFI and How to Choose the Right One
The previous piece in this series made the case for index-linked contracts as a structural solution to the floating surcharge problem and the behavioral breakdown that fixed-rate c...
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Index-Linked Contracts in Ocean Freight: What They Are and How They Work
A fixed rate isn't the protection it looks like. Carriers control the surcharge stack. Here's the contract structure that closes that gap.
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How to Read an Ocean Freight Quote
An ocean freight quote is not a single number. It is a collection of charges that together represent the total cost of moving your cargo from origin to destination, and the way tho...
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Why Did My Ocean Freight Rate Go Up?
You opened your freight invoice and the number was higher than expected. Maybe significantly higher. Your contracted rate looked the same, but the total was not. Or your forwarder/...
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Ocean Freight Surcharges: Complete List and What Each One Means
This guide covers every major ocean freight surcharge, organized by category, with plain-language definitions and the abbreviations you will see on freight quotes and invoices.
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