Freight markets,
made clear.
Track rates, trade lanes, congestion and market developments through one independent information platform — built for the people who quote, buy and move containers every day.
Everything a forwarder needs to read the market.
Four connected products, one data model. Rates give you the number, Pulse gives you the story, Port Watch gives you the friction, Outlook gives you the direction.
Rates & trade lanes
Spot and contract benchmarks on 240+ port pairs, with 12 months of history, percentile bands and volatility.
Open the explorer →Freight Pulse
The weekly market briefing: what moved, why it moved, and what it means for the quotes on your desk.
Read this week →Port Watch
Waiting times, berth pressure and terminal status across 90+ ports — so delays surface before your customer calls.
Check the ports →Rate Outlook
A 90-day directional view per corridor, with the drivers and scenarios behind it. Stated ranges, not false precision.
See the outlook →Biggest weekly moves.
Week 35, 2026 · spot, 40′ HC, all-in.
| Trade lane | Corridor | Spot 40′ HC | Week | Month | 13-week trend |
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Data you can put in front of a customer.
Every number carries its definition, its sample size and its last update. When you quote against a benchmark, you should be able to say exactly what that benchmark is — and defend it in the meeting afterwards.
Independent of any carrier
No carrier owns a share of the index and no rate is boosted for a commercial partner.
Traceable to the source
Each benchmark shows contributor count, spread and the exact basis of the quote.
Free at the surface
Headline indices, port status and the weekly briefing stay open to everyone. Depth is the paid part.
Latest market analysis.
SeaFreightPrices.com stays an information platform. When a lane turns into a shipment, ContainerBooking.com handles the booking, customs and tracking side.
Every lane, priced and put in context.
Pick a port pair and see the spot benchmark, the contract equivalent, where today's number sits in its 12-month range, and how volatile the lane has been. Sample data shown for demonstration.
All benchmarked lanes.
| Trade lane | Corridor | Transit | Spot 40′ HC | Week | Month | 13-week trend |
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All-in port-to-port benchmarks in USD, excluding local charges at origin and destination unless stated. Sample data for demonstration purposes.
The market, in the ten minutes you have.
Every Tuesday at 07:00 CET: what moved on the lanes you quote, which ports are tightening, and the two or three developments worth acting on this week.
Asia–Europe softens into September as capacity returns
Blank sailings unwound faster than expected after the summer peak, and the resulting capacity is landing on North Europe first. Med lanes are holding better, and the transatlantic westbound is the only major corridor still firming.
- Asia–North Europe spot fell 3.2% week on week, the fifth consecutive decline, and now sits 14% below its 12-month average.
- Transpacific eastbound is flat rather than falling — carriers are defending the floor ahead of the October contract discussions.
- Rotterdam and Antwerp waiting times both eased below two days for the first time since May.
- Reefer premiums on South America northbound widened again ahead of the citrus season.
- Red Sea routings remain the exception rather than the rule; Cape of Good Hope routing is still priced into Asia–Europe transit times.
This week's balance
Composite readings from contributor submissions, booked volume proxies and deployed capacity.
Corridor sentiment
Direction expected over the next four weeks.
Previous issues.
See the friction before it reaches your customer.
Berth waiting times, yard pressure and terminal status across 90+ ports, refreshed daily. When a port turns, you hear it from the data rather than from the complaint.
| Port | Region | Berth wait | Yard utilisation | Week | Status |
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Waiting time measured from arrival at anchorage to first-line ashore, rolling 7-day median. Sample data for demonstration purposes.
A 90-day view, with the reasoning attached.
A stated range and a confidence band per corridor — never a single number pretending to be certain. Every outlook lists the drivers behind it, so you can disagree with the logic rather than the output.
Forecast band
Spot benchmark, 40′ HC, USD · shaded area is the 80% confidence band
The four forces on Q4.
Each driver is scored for direction and weight, and re-scored weekly.
How the numbers are made.
A benchmark is only useful if you can explain it. This is the full basis of every rate, index and status published on SeaFreightPrices.com.
Collection
Rate submissions from forwarders, NVOCCs and shippers, combined with published carrier tariffs and booked-transaction data. Contributors submit under a fixed schema so like is compared with like.
Validation
Outliers beyond three median absolute deviations are quarantined and reviewed by hand. Any lane with fewer than eight independent contributors is published as indicative, and labelled as such.
Publication
Benchmarks are the trimmed mean of the validated sample, published at 08:00 CET each business day with contributor count, spread and revision history attached.
Independence
No carrier, terminal or forwarder holds an ownership stake in the index, and no commercial relationship affects a published number. Contributors can see their own submissions but never another party's. Where a lane is commercially connected to the wider ecosystem, it is disclosed on the lane page itself.
What each term means here.
Start free. Go deeper when you need to.
Headline indices, port status and the weekly briefing are open to everyone. Lane-level history, alerts and the API are where the platform earns its keep.
- All 12 corridor indices
- Port Watch status board
- Freight Pulse weekly briefing
- Insights archive
- 13 weeks of history
- Everything in Open
- All 240+ lanes, spot and contract
- Full 5-year history and CSV export
- Unlimited watched lanes and rate alerts
- Rate Outlook with scenario bands
- Percentile and volatility analytics
- Everything in Professional
- REST and streaming API access
- Custom lane and corridor baskets
- Index embedding in your own quoting tools
- SSO, team seats and audit trail
- Named analyst contact
Pull benchmarks straight into your own systems.
One REST call returns the benchmark, its confidence metadata and the full history for any lane. Rate your quotes against the market inside your own TMS, quoting tool or pricing sheet.
# Latest benchmark for Shanghai → Rotterdam GET https://api.seafreightprices.com/v1/rates ?origin=CNSHA&destination=NLRTM &equipment=40HC&basis=spot { "lane": "CNSHA-NLRTM", "rate_usd": 2480, "change_wow": -0.032, "percentile_12m": 0.31, "contributors": 41, "as_of": "2026-08-26T06:00:00Z" }
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Forwarders who submit weekly get Professional access at no cost. Submissions stay confidential and are never attributed.
Media & research
Indices may be cited with attribution to SeaFreightPrices.com. Charts and underlying series available on request.
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