Building a bridge between ocean and domestic transportation markets

Understanding ocean shipping trends is vital to understanding the freight flows in domestic transportation markets. The easiest identifier is linking rises (and falls) in import volumes that are clearing U.S. Customs in port markets with increases (and decreases) in both truckload and intermodal volumes in the markets. The free white paper, Ocean markets drive the […]

SONAR Indices & Insights: Get a leading indicator of containerized ocean shipments volumes before they leave a port of origin with Ocean TEUs indices

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In this edition of “SONAR Indices & Insights,” the SONAR team describes how freight market participants can view a leading indicator of incoming ocean shipments before they leave the port of origin. This is possible using the new Ocean TEUs indices found in SONAR, the freight forecasting platform from FreightWaves.  When freight market participants are […]

Are Freight Volumes About To Fly? (with video)

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On this episode of #WithSONAR, co-hosts Luke Falasca and Kyle Taylor focus on the number one leading indicator of domestic truckload volumes, which is U.S. import volume. Using SONAR’s Ocean Shipments Report app can help companies in all modes “read the future” and know where freight will be coming into the U.S., when and in what […]

Ocean Shipments Report: How it Adds Value to Plan for Capacity and Rates

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SONAR 7.0 featured the release of our highly anticipated Ocean Shipments Report App. This is one of the best leading indicators ever brought to market for the ocean container industry as well as for anyone involved in the domestic US port, intermodal, or trucking markets.  What does the ocean shipments report do? The ocean shipment […]

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