Freightos Baltic Index™️

Increase ocean freight visibility with the leading ocean container pricing index

Supply chain organizations globally turn to the Freightos Baltic Index (FBX) for real-time visibility into the global ocean container market. As the leading container index, FBX supports benchmarking with true-to-market daily updates on 40′ container prices across 13 lanes, backed by IOSCO compliance and rigorous external oversight from the Baltic Exchange.

an example of an FBX chart

“Where are we relative to the market?”

Sourcing, researching, and presenting global ocean freight trends, price spreads and movements to to executives, colleagues, suppliers, customers, or employees has never been this easy, or simple.

Pull real-time reports on key lanes, like South East Asia – United States West Coast or 12 others and use the interactive display or download the charts – or export raw data as needed.

Popular lanes:
FX01: China/East Asia to North America West Coast
FBX03: China/East Asia to North American East Coast
FBX11: China/East Asia – North Europe
FBX13: China/East Asia – Mediterranean 40′

Keep routing and lead times one step ahead of market events

Routing decisions affect lead times, costs, and efficiency. Use accurate, transaction-based freight data to find the alternative routes in real-time that keep things flowing where they need to go, smoothly.

With pricing spreads and transit time information at your fingertips, your team has the information it needs to make better decisions.

Real freight market conditions informed by real transactions

The Freightos Baltic Index utilizes real transactions to ensure accuracy, so the pricing you see reflects what’s available in the market. FBX is updated daily, IOSCO-compliant, and is used for index-linked freight contracts on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and Singapore Exchange.

Research and compare historical freight data, events, and trends

Price points speaks loudly but with global supply chains, context matters.

Freightos Data subscribers also benefit from access to historical data, live feeds of key events – including daily updates on congestions, labor strikes, weather conditions and more – to identify where the market is going and why.

Freightos Data gives us the ability to be able to understand on a week by week and month by month basis where we’re trending at, and how we make the best routing decisions for our company to ensure that we are paying the most competitive prices and remaining competitive with our market.

Dan Smith

Logistics Manager

Trusted by logistics pros around the globe

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Open your free Freightos Terminal account and start searching and comparing ocean container pricing on all 12 tradelanes and air indexes for major lanes, free.

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