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Market Index Pricing

Reduce Costs and Make Smarter Decisions with your Shipments, compare your contract and spot rate prices against the market.

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Features

Features for Market Index Pricing

Index Detail

Understand market index rates for ocean and air shipments, including long and short terms rates, 20’ or 40’ or LCL (kgs).

Benefits

Market Index Pricing

You don’t always have to be at the mercy of constantly fluctuating prices. Be better informed with your contracts, rates and shipments. Collaborate better with partners in the supply chain by basing your discussions on market intel.

Market Index Pricing
Automatically calculated market index rates with route and schedule search
Based on time and cargo
Understand rates based on long and short term view, 20’, 40’ and LCL (kgs) cargo
Index Pricing
Fluent Cargo provides market index pricing to ensure that our customers rates are in line with market expectations.
Dynamic Rates
Dynamically see rates in real time across all routes and schedules. Understand indexed rates at the cargo level.
Multi Modal Indexes
Available for Ocean and Air, across all regions, globally
Accurate market indexes
High minimum data thresholds to ensure data integrity of market indexes

Pain points

The problem

The shipping world is full of uncertainties and disruptions. Couple that with no governing body to police prices - shippers, service providers and carriers are subject to constantly changing market prices.

This makes it difficult to be efficient and cost effective. Fluent Cargo provides market index pricing to ensure that our customers rates are in line with market expectations.

How we help

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Customers can compare their rates with the market but also be exposed to a 30 day trend in order to plan and execute shipments and services, reduce cost and increase margin. By understanding the market, you can ensure that your rates are inline or better.

Frequently Asked Questions

Find out more about our index pricing and shipment planning tools. If there is a question you can’t find the answer to, please contact us.

Unfortunately you'll need to find a shipping partner or Freight Forwarder and get them to provide a quote for you. To get a quote you'll need to provide them with the Pick up and Dropoff address, date for pick up and delivery as well as a detailed description of your items.

The Fluent Cargo platform does however provide indexed market rates which will give you a snapshot of the average rates seen in the market over the last 30 days to help you be more informed when talking to your shipping partner.