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Shipping & Logistics data feeds

Vessel tracking, port congestion, and freight-rate signals — the physical layer underneath trade-balance and inflation prints.

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Suez Canal Authority transit & tonnage statistics

Suez Canal Authority (SCA) official statistics portal (sca.gov.eg)

Red Sea diversions around Suez (Houthi attacks) show up first in falling SCA transit counts before rates catch up, signaling Cape of Good Hope rerouting and freight rate inflation → Asia-Europe container rates, VLCC/product tanker ton-miles

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USDA Grain Transportation Report barge rates

USDA AMS Grain Transportation Report (ams.usda.gov/services/transportation-analysis/gtr)

Barge rate spikes reflect river-level/lock disruptions and directly set grain export logistics cost, a leading indicator for FOB Gulf grain spreads → grain export basis, ag futures

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DAT dry van spot rate national average

DAT Freight & Analytics trendlines (dat.com/trendlines) free public snapshot

Truckload spot rates are the fastest-clearing freight price signal, leading contract rate resets and trucking equity earnings by a quarter → trucking equities (KNX, JBHT, WERN), diesel demand

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Freightos Baltic Index (FBX) by lane

Freightos public FBX index (fbx.freightos.com) daily published index

Standard benchmark for container spot pricing turns; useful as the contested baseline against which more obscure signals are validated → container shipping equities (ZIM, Maersk), retail import costs

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Kpler/Vortexa-style floating storage proxy via AIS draft+speed

MarineTraffic/AISHub free-tier AIS feed, filtered for tanker type + stationary pattern

Rising floating storage signals oversupply/contango building before EIA/API inventory data catches it, especially for regions with no official storage stats (e.g. offshore Singapore, Fujairah) → crude oil term structure (contango/backwardation), tanker equities

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TAC Index / Hong Kong air cargo spot rate

TAC Index free weekly summary (tacindex.com) or Xeneta Air public snapshot

Hong Kong is the dominant air freight origin for high-value electronics/e-commerce, and spot rate moves lead broader air cargo tonnage stats by weeks → air freight forwarders, e-commerce cross-border shippers

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Warehouse vacancy rate by US logistics submarket

CBRE/Cushman & Wakefield free quarterly industrial market reports (public PDF releases)

Submarket-level vacancy divergence (e.g. Inland Empire softening while Dallas tightens) signals regional freight demand shifts ahead of REIT earnings for industrial landlords (PLD, EGP, FR) → industrial REITs, regional trucking demand

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Drewry World Container Index composite + 8 lanes

Drewry WCI free weekly published composite (drewry.co.uk/world-container-index)

Industry-standard reference index; useful as cross-check baseline against Freightos/SCFI for confirming lane-level divergence signals → container equities, retail import cost inflation

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Xeneta short-term rate benchmark deviation (public snapshot)

Xeneta public blog/market update releases (xeneta.com/ocean-freight-rates)

Widening spot-vs-contract gap predicts contract renegotiation waves and carrier earnings surprises a quarter ahead → container carrier equities, shipper cost forecasting

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US grain export inspections by port (FGIS)

USDA Federal Grain Inspection Service (FGIS) weekly export inspections report (available via USDA AMS)

Port-level (not just national) inspection data reveals whether Gulf vs PNW is capturing export share, a proxy for Mississippi barge congestion vs. rail-served PNW competitiveness → grain futures basis, barge vs rail freight substitution

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US rail grain car loading & shuttle train counts (AAR/Class I weekly)

AAR weekly rail traffic report + individual railroad (BNSF, UP) grain car report emails (public subscription)

Shuttle train velocity for grain is a direct proxy for PNW/Gulf export pace competing with barge, useful for basis trades between river and rail-served export terminals → grain futures basis, rail equities

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Corpus Christi / Houston Ship Channel LNG tanker queue

MarineTraffic/VesselFinder free vessel-type filter + USCG Sector Houston-Galveston port condition notices

LNG carrier queue length is a direct leading indicator of US LNG export terminal loading bottlenecks feeding TTF/JKM spreads → natural gas export arb, Henry Hub-TTF spread

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Houston/LA refinery-adjacent tanker draft change

AISHub free feed / MarineTraffic free tier filtered to specific terminal geofences

draft change at second-tier crude terminals catches loading/discharge before large trackers price it in, since most vendors focus on top-20 terminals → WTI-Brent spread, crude export flows

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Suez Canal alternate Cape of Good Hope AIS traffic count

MarineTraffic/AISHub free density map filtered to Cape route geofence, or South African Ports Authority (Transnet) vessel call stats

direct count of Suez-diversions via the Cape gives real-time evidence of Red Sea risk avoidance independent of canal authority self-reported stats → freight rate spikes, Suez-sensitive container/tanker names

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Constanta port grain vessel queue

Constanta Port Administration public vessel traffic bulletins / MarineTraffic geofence

Constanta became the top Ukraine grain export outlet post-war; queue length directly signals export pace ahead of USDA/UkrAgroConsult reports → wheat/corn futures, Black Sea freight

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Strait of Malacca / Singapore Strait VTS vessel count

MPA Singapore public port statistics / Marine Traffic and Trade e-services (some public bulletins)

Malacca Strait carries ~25% of global trade; transit count anomalies catch Asia-Pacific trade slowdowns before China customs data releases → Asia-Pacific container volumes, crude tanker flows

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US LTL freight class rate index (SMC3 CzarLite public benchmark changes)

Individual LTL carrier GRI press releases (Old Dominion, Saia, XPO investor/press pages — public)

LTL general rate increase timing/magnitude is a leading read on small-shipment freight demand distinct from truckload spot indices like DAT → LTL carrier equities (ODFL, SAIA, XPO)

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US FMC ocean carrier alliance capacity deployment filings

Individual carrier/alliance press releases (2M, Ocean Alliance, THE Alliance) + FMC filings on service contracts (public)

blank-sailing announcement counts are a direct, self-disclosed leading indicator of trans-Pacific capacity cuts ahead of spot rate moves → container spot rates (FBX/SCFI already listed, but this is the underlying capacity mechanism, not the price)

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Locked — held back

Redacted and held back — our highest-signal feeds plus anything with compliance restrictions. Not for sale yet. The FREE and PREMIUM tiers are on pricing.