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How Do You Know If Your Ocean Freight Contract Management Process Is Working?

Strong contract management isn't measured by how many contracts you negotiate. It's measured by how consistently your organization executes them after they're signed. Here's how leading procurement teams evaluate whether their contract management process is actually working.
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How to Benchmark Ocean Freight Rates Across Your Carrier Portfolio

Benchmarking one lane is useful. Benchmarking your entire carrier portfolio is where procurement teams uncover their biggest opportunities for savings, stronger negotiations, and better allocation decisions.
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Should You Renegotiate Your Ocean Contracts When the Market Changes?

Your contract may no longer reflect today's market, but that doesn't automatically mean it's time to renegotiate. Learn how procurement teams use transaction-based benchmarks, index-linked contracts, and new risk management tools to respond more effectively as freight markets evolve.
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Why Ocean Freight Procurement Spreadsheets Eventually Break Down

Every new spreadsheet solves today's problem. Six months later, it becomes tomorrow's source of confusion. Learn why spreadsheet drift happens in ocean freight procurement and how leading teams eliminate it.
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The NYFI Difference: Why Index Governance Matters More Than You Think

Not all freight indices are governed the same way. If you're using an index for benchmarking, contracting, or financial planning, governance matters more than you might think.
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Capacity Data Is the Rate Signal Most Teams Miss

By the time a GRI hits your inbox, the market has already been signaling it for weeks. Learn how procurement teams use capacity data to spot changes before the rate announcement arrives.
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How Procurement Teams Evaluate New Ocean Freight Lanes with Rate Intelligence

Expanding into new sourcing origins requires more than carrier quotes. Learn how one procurement team used four layers of market intelligence to evaluate new ocean freight lanes with greater confidence.
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Why Your Ocean Freight Costs Look Different to Every Team in Your Company

Ask procurement, logistics, and finance what you're paying per TEU. You'll get three different numbers. Here's why that happens and what it costs your operation.
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Why Ocean Freight Is Now a CFO-Level Conversation

Ocean freight is a CFO-level conversation now. Supply chain leaders with a market benchmark don't defend variances. They report performance. Here's the difference.
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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.
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How to Know if Your Ocean Freight Rates Are Still Competitive

Getting three quotes isn't benchmarking. Here's what tells you whether your ocean freight rate is still competitive today, not six months ago.
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Why Your Ocean Freight Budget Keeps Coming in Over Plan

The conversation with finance about why freight came in over plan is uncomfortable. Having the data to prevent it is not.
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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)
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Container Freight Futures Are Live. Here's What That Actually Means for Shippers.

Something Changed on April 7, 2026
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How to Build an Ocean Freight Rate Intelligence Process in Four Steps

Most procurement teams don't have a rate intelligence process. They have habits. Here's the four-step system that replaces "checking occasionally" with actually knowing where you stand.
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What Is Ocean Freight Rate Intelligence? A Practical Guide for Procurement Teams

Rate intelligence eliminates the unnecessary freight costs that exist because of information gaps, and in most procurement organizations that portion is meaningful.
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The Five Questions Your CFO Will Ask About Freight Hedging (and How to Answer Each One)

Bringing freight hedging to finance isn't about selling a new idea. It's about answering the same due diligence questions treasury asks of every material business risk.
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How Freight Risk Management Changes the Conversation with Finance

The biggest change isn't the hedge itself. It's how procurement can communicate market exposure, trade-offs, and planning decisions to finance before costs begin to drift.
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How Hedging Works in Plain Language

Freight hedging sounds complicated because of the terminology, not the concepts. Here's how freight futures work using familiar ocean freight scenarios instead of financial jargon.
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CaseStudies

Learn how BARK used NYSHEX to meet their allocation in-full in 2021 and get ahead of challenges at both destination and origin.

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NYSHEXPodcast

2022 was a crazy year for the container shipping industry. But how can we take these learnings to adjust our strategies for the coming year? In our latest episode, Don brings back Caroline Weaver, Account Manager at NYSHEX, to review what happened in 2022 and what lessons we can bring into the new year. In […]

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NYSHEXWebinars

How to hedge against volatility with multi-year ocean contracts

With all the market challenges and more to come, shippers need to be proactive to avoid future disruptions. Join our upcoming webinar to learn why shippers are starting to sign multi-year contracts to rebuild confidence and stability in the supply chain operations and create an…

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NYSHEXWhitepaper

Winning in Ocean Contracting in 2020 and Beyond

The shipping industry has changed, and reliability has suffered. As an ocean procurement executive, however, your objectives to contract competitive freight rates, minimize spend deviations versus forecasted budget, and ensure cargo arrives on time have not changed. In this white paper, Chuck McDaniel, former Global Logistics Procurement

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