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Identifying freight market trends across all modes

FreightWaves SONAR

Short-haul volume growth shines a light on current trucking trends. Understanding freight trends from the beginning of the supply chain all the way through to delivery is important for all parties involved. The current trends in maritime shipping data suggest increased shipment delays and further inflationary pressures on rates.

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SONAR Indices & Insights: Use the RESL Index to measure retail sales trends to help predict shifts in the freight markets

FreightWaves SONAR

In this edition of “SONAR Indices & Insights,” the SONAR team will explain another index found within SONAR, the freight forecasting platform from FreightWaves. In this article, you learn what the RESL Index is, what it may tell various freight market participants, and what the RESL Index can do for each freight market participant.

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Freight Market Data Sources

FreightWaves SONAR

(Graphics created by Emily Ricks) There are ample opportunities to take advantage of spot versus contract freight data insights. Spot freight provides a short-term way to source capacity and boost procurement outside of contracted rates whether TL or LTL. That’s simply not true.

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5 shipping trends for 2021 for carriers to know

FreightWaves SONAR

With the havoc 2020 caused, can shipping trends get any worse? Preparation becomes the name of the game in shipping trends, and being ahead becomes the new normal. If a business wants to “thrive” in 2021 abnormalities, it’s essential to consider the top trends to expect through the year. Congratulations and welcome to 2021!

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Freight Costs: 5 tips to get the biggest bang for your buck

FreightWaves SONAR

Freight costs and budget adherence are among the most important and often overlooked aspects of transportation management. Measuring performance with transportation KPIs and freight data is getting easier. Budgeting and managing freight costs are critical to overcoming any disruptions and increasing profitability.

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How LTL shipping rates work and how to track trends developing in long-term pricing agreements

FreightWaves SONAR

Less-than-truckload shipping, also known as LTL shipping, is nothing new within the transportation and shipping industry, but it has become more of a game-changer in recent years with freight rate prediction. LTL shipping rates would historically depend on freight class and the cost per hundredweight . Download the White Paper.

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[WHITE PAPER] Ocean markets drive the domestic freight markets

FreightWaves SONAR

We often demo SONAR to customers that want to see every domestic freight dataset we have to offer while showing little interest in our ocean data. That has always been puzzling to us because we believe that the ocean shipping markets and the domestic freight markets are inextricably linked. Request a SONAR Demo.