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Industry Leading Freight Data and Analytics

SONAR’s best-in-class data and analytics help you understand market shifts today so you can achieve more tomorrow.

  • Utilize FreightWaves TRAC to secure more loads with spot rates that reflect current market conditions
  • Benchmark with reliable paid contract rates from freight shipper invoices in SONAR SCI
  • Navigate ocean markets with SONAR Container Atlas
  • Explore Tender Volume and Rejection data to target the right markets
  • Keep freight moving with SONAR’s intermodal and rail data

Market Monitoring

The comprehensive data and analytics in the SONAR freight platform help you forecast and track freight capacity and keep freight spending under control.

Outbound Tender Rejection Index

The OTRI dashboards allow supply chain teams to visualize freight movement patterns, volatility, and price movement. The Outbound Tender Rejection Index shows supply and demand dynamics at a national, regional, state, or market level. This index helps you make decisions on accepting or rejecting loads based on tender rejections.
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Outbound Tender Volume Index

The Outbound Tender Volume Index (OTVI) is the most up-to-date and reliable indicator of market demand. Use this index to see which markets are shipping the most freight, along with the trends and changes in freight volumes. OTVI shows you where freight is available in a market. Use OTVI in conjunction with the Outbound Tender Rejection Index (OTRI) to optimize your freight rates.
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SONAR Container Atlas

The only high-frequency ocean container data platform which provides point-of-booking market intelligence. SONAR Container Atlas is the only platform to concentrate on bookings, sailing schedules, vessel locations, and container rate data from multiple providers. Monitor freight activity, rates, and volumes up to a month in advance of every other dataset in the container market.
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Rate Optimization

SONAR high frequency supply chain intelligence guides companies to make stronger proactive decisions toward cost and carrier performance.

Diesel Fuel Price Rates

Find out the average market rate and average fuel cost on your most important lanes. Fuel rates let you optimize carrier costs and spot cost-savings opportunities on key routes. Get insight into diesel fuel prices across major transportation lanes by evaluating the average fuel cost rate per mile in SONAR.
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FreightWaves TRAC Spot Rates

FreightWaves TRAC collects data daily from a consortium of key market-driving companies adhering to a standardized protocol. TRAC Spot Rate methodology uses data when the load is covered, delivering data that exceeds market standard. Access unmatched rates with FreightWaves TRAC, the freshest freight pricing data in the market.
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SONAR SCI

SONAR SCI is a groundbreaking data and analytics platform with all of SONAR’s features and data – and more. SCI subscribers have access to existing SONAR data, including $100 billion of freight invoices submitted daily. Invoices include what shippers actually pay carriers– not self-reported data. SCI subscribers get access to the only tool set to gauge the trade off between tender acceptance and rate to improve their supply chain performance.
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SONAR SCI

Actionable insights to help shippers, carriers and 3PLs reduce costs, improve route guide compliance and make proactive decisions.

Market Dashboard+

A multi-lane analysis tool designed to empower bid management, frequent lane monitoring and corridor trend visualization.

TRAC

High-frequency and accurate pricing data on volatility, rates and capacity to improve margins and contract negotiations.

API

A customizable data analytics plugin that delivers the power and flexibility that modern supply chain businesses need — with more control and less risk.

Container Atlas

Data insights and trends around vessel delays and price fluctuations to help users mitigate risk and make more informed and profitable decisions.

NTI

A real-time proxy for the health of the national supply chain used by freight and non-freight businesses to make more accurate decisions.

SONAR StakUp

The premier benchmarking platform for truckload carriers to compare their most important KPIs.

Index-Linked Contracts

Optimize pricing and relationships by creating dynamic contracts based on the source of truth for the supply chain industry.
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Features

Make more strategic business decisions and outperform the competition with SONAR’s full suite of products.

Data

Stay on top of supply and demand dynamics across all modes of transportation with SONAR’s best-in-class data and analytics.
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