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The FIE Input Cost Index reached 148 this week, up 5 points from 143 and the highest reading since the index launched in April. Freight is behind it all. The […]
The FIE Input Cost Index came in at 146 this week, down 2 points from last week’s record of 148. Freight eased. The Freightos Baltic Index dropped 3%, from $3,980 […]
The latest rail traffic data is in, and it paints a surprising picture of economic recovery. The Freight Rail Index has reached its second-highest level since 2008, indicating a si...
The report’s second quarter shipment index value, at 75.1, was off 1.1% compared to the first quarter, and was down 2.8% annually, following the first quarter’s 0.6% annual gain, f...
The latest TD Cowen/AFS Freight Index projects truckload, LTL and parcel shipping costs will stay elevated through Q3 as fuel prices remain high.
For May, the most recent month for which data is available, the SCI reading, at -15.4, improved slightly over April’s -17.4 and March’s -18.9, with the firm saying it is among the...
This week’s FIE Input Cost Index is live. The index declined for the second consecutive week. Ocean freight drove most of the move. The Freightos Baltic Index fell 5%, its […]
Rising fuel prices and tighter capacity continue to keep transportation costs elevated across every major shipping mode.
Grain, freight, and factory input costs all fell together this week. In 15 weeks of tracking the Food Industry Executive Input Cost Index, that’s never happened before. Ocean freig...
The June shipments reading, at 1.009, fell 4.1% annually, and expenditures, at 3.640, posted an 11.2% annual gain.
Freight shipments softened in June but truckload rates continued to step higher year over year, according to a monthly report from Cass Information Systems. The post Cass: TL lineh...
The Baltic Dry Index rose 5.5% to 3,331 points, touching the highest since December 2023, driven by a rise in the constituent Capesize rate that surged over 8%.
Air freight rates are continuing to edge lower, despite renewed conflict in the Middle East, leaving the market caught between weakening demand on some trades, rising fuel costs, a...
This week’s Food Industry Executive Input Cost Index eased slightly, and freight gets the credit. Three of the index’s other signals just got tighter. Boxed beef posted its third s...
Trucking rate indexes jumped during the second quarter and are expected to reach new highs in the third quarter. The post TL, LTL rates to hit new highs in Q3 appeared first on Fre...
The Drewry World Container Index fell in the latest week’s data on lower spot rates for trans-Pacific and Asia-Europe headhaul routes. The post Drewry index edges lower on decline...
The July shipments reading, at .983, fell 4.8% annually, steeper than June’s 4.1% annual decline. July expenditures, at 3.518, rose 9.1% annually, following an 11.2% June gain.
Ocean freight had fallen for four straight weeks. This week it reversed, worsening conditions for food manufacturers running on tight margins. The FIE Input Cost Index climbed agai...
Industrial slowdown ahead? ECRI says the global industrial cycle is topping out, and that could squeeze freight demand and margins in the quarters ahead. Lakshman Achuthan, co-foun...
Same-day data for publicly traded trucking and transportation stocks in the autonomous, truckload, less-than-truckload, package, logistics and leasing categories.
Tabi’s Rush Feldhacker breaks down who currently holds the pricing power in the unpredictable freight market using their new Pricing Pressure Index. Learn how brokers are leveragin...
The RXO Curve index shows renewed pressure on spot and contract truckload rates as shippers take more business to bid in late 2026 and fuel costs remain volatile.
The second-quarter U.S. Bank Freight Payment Index captured a market moving in two directions at once. The post Flatbed Report: Shippers paid more to move less in Q2 appeared first...
Sustained import volumes and rising freight rates near the end of an early peak season are “taking most observers by surprise,” Freightos said.
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