Your comprehensive source of ocean and air freight market intelligence. From market spread and carrier rates to surcharges and capacity.
Trusted by the world's biggest buyers & sellers of ocean & air freight
Widespread disruption to ocean freight shipping has thrown the industry into a cloud of uncertainty, with surging rates and increasing service unreliability.
There's no playbook for the current market, and relying on existing ways of working to make your next strategic move puts you at risk.
So how do you find balance when the ground is never even?
With a holistic market view based on real-time, neutral data crowdsourced from shippers and forwarders.
Shippers using Xeneta see an average reduction in annual freight spend of 6.5%. Using the Xeneta platform to monitor the market, report and align internally, identify opportunities and risks, and inform your budgeting and tender decisions is key to a leaner, smarter, agile supply chain.
Put Xeneta’s real-time market insights into action and challenge your team to work smarter, not harder, as you push for margin growth. Add value in line with the market, strengthen your relationship with customers and suppliers, and improve your tender win-rate by at least 10%.
With over 500M rates in our database, Xeneta data shows you the opportunities and risks to your supply chain to help you find the most profitable way forward.
Some customers report achieving 10x ROI within 6 months, thanks to actionable intelligence that helps you get your cargo where it needs to be, when it needs to be there, at rates you can justify in any market.
Where can you push harder in negotiations? Should you shift volumes to the spot market? Is there a better supplier for your rate and service level needs?
See how capacity, blanked sailings, and schedule reliability are evolving on a weekly basis. Strategically choose carriers and routes to give your freight the best chance at getting where it needs to be, at the right time.
Shippers who set target tender rates with Xeneta data perform 2-15% points better than the market average, while Forwarders who use the data to set their sell rates increase their response and win rates.
Time your RFQs with where the market truly stands and lock in a competitive position ahead of your peers.
From procurement teams, finance, C-level and everything in between—unite your entire business around the only unbiased, accurate picture of the current market.
What does internal alignment look like? Make faster decisions, justify your freight costs, set accurate budgets and spotlight even the small wins.
The Xeneta platform is my go-to sanity check for the ocean and air freight market. In addition, everybody recognizes Xeneta as a reliable source because it is far more comprehensive than other offerings.
Group General Manager, Head of Global Key Account Sales, Nippon Express
On one lane, I could see we were at the market high level. After further discussions with the carrier, I managed to get a 30% reduction on the rate, taking it from market high to just below market mid-low. On an annualized basis this is worth close to $1.5M on one lane alone.
Global Category Leader, Freight & Logistics, Associated British Foods
At Ineos Styrolution, we use the Xeneta platform daily. From time to time, we receive spot requests, and by using Xeneta, it is easy to gauge market conditions without even contacting carriers - reducing the amount of time spent on the process tremendously.
Regional Category Buyer, On & Off Site Logistics and Packaging Material
Market intelligence gives us a critical business advantage. We use Xeneta ocean and air rates as the benchmark to all tender bids. The team checks if the rates they are negotiating are in line with the market level or optimal for Continental. The data is crucial for evaluating our supply chain performance and improving internal processes.
Head of Cluster Freight - NPM Purchasing, Continental
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Global manufacturers, retailers, pharmaceutical companies etc. have all found hidden opportunities for financial and operational improvement with Xeneta. Will you join them?
