Freightos Collaborates with Thomson Reuters
Thomson Reuters customers will now benefit from on-demand Freightos International Freight Index (FIFI) data on Eikon
March 19, 2018, London – Global freight indexes provided by the online freight marketplace Freightos are now available on Thomson Reuters flagship financial desktop product Eikon, providing users with comprehensive insights into global freight market movements. As international merchandise exports grew by nearly 40% in the last decade, businesses are increasingly tapping into rapidly changing data to fine-tune global supply chains.
“Global freight pricing has been historically opaque, creating an inefficient market that hinders decision-making and wastes money,” said Zvi Schreiber, CEO of Freightos. “After honing global freight rate management, sales, and booking technology over the past five years, Freightos is delighted to leverage our data to enhance business operations for major logistics providers, importers and exporters, and carriers.”
“Thomson Reuters Eikon is trusted by financial and business professionals worldwide to provide insight into market movements,” said Leigh Henson, Global Head of Commodities at Thomson Reuters. “Access to comprehensive international freight data such as the Freightos International Freight Index, plays a key role in delivering clarity in real-time for carriers, logistics providers, and, most importantly, beneficial cargo owners (BCOs).”
As of March 19, 2018, Freightos International Freight Index (FIFI) data will be available within Eikon terminals, providing insights derived from Freightos’ global freight database of over one billion unique pricing points. Powered by anonymized real-time business data from global freight carriers, freight forwarders, and shippers, FIFI provides import and export prices of 40ft container prices on key shipping lanes, including China-US (West Coast or East Coast), China-Europe, China-Mediterranean, Europe-US (East Coast) and Europe – South America.
Freightos FIFI is updated every Sunday. To access weekly ocean freight rates for 40′ containers from Freightos International Freight Index go to <0#FREIGHTOS> or, to access the Freightos App, type FREIGHTOS into Thomson Reuters Eikon. Additional Freightos index data is available at www.freightos.com/index, with individual carrier/route data available at www.freightos.com/rate-insight.
About Thomson Reuters Eikon
Thomson Reuters Eikon is a powerful and intuitive next-generation open platform solution for consuming real-time and historical data, enabling financial markets transactions and connecting with the financial markets community. Its award-winning news, analytics and data visualization tools help its users make more efficient trading and investment decisions across asset classes and instruments including commodities, derivatives, equities, fixed income and foreign exchange. Eikon is a leading desktop and mobile solution that is open, connected, informed and intelligent.
About Freightos
Freightos® makes global trade frictionless with the world’s online marketplace for the trillion dollar international shipping industry. The Freightos Marketplace helps importers and exporters reduce logistics spend and save time with instant comparison, booking and management of air, ocean and land shipments from top logistics providers. The result is international shipping that’s as smooth as booking a flight online.
Freightos also provides patent-pending technology that empowers carriers and logistics providers around the world to automate freight sales. Freightos AcceleRate™ and Freightos WebCargo™ power rate management, automated pricing, and online freight sales for over 1,000 logistics service providers and carriers, including multi-billion dollar companies like Panalpina and Nippon Express.
Freightos has accumulated the world’s largest global database of multimodal freight rates, providing industry transparency with the Freightos International Freight Index. Founded by serial entrepreneur Zvi Schreiber, Freightos is a logistics technology pioneer with a worldwide presence, and has raised $50 million from leading venture funds, including GE Ventures.
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