freight futures

Five years after bringing dry bulk freight futures to the masses, Breakwave makes a splash in tanker investing.

There is growing sentiment that higher trans-Pacific spot rates will not hold and prospects for shipping lines remain weak.

Container lines, shipowners and shippers have a new way to navigate the market chaos: cleared freight futures.

The abrupt closure of K-Ratio’s fuel hedging program in late June has left trucking companies scrambling as they await answers from the Chicago-based company as to what happened and if they will recoup money owed to them since K-Ratio shuttered its fuel swap options platform.

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Spot freight may only account for 10-20% of total freight moved in the U.S., but its activity paints the picture of the entire freight market. Tom Mallon joins to discuss the direction of rates in 2020. Also; Coronavirus update along with the current state of the market as well as recent economic releases.

Anthony, Zach, and special guest Kyle Lintner from K-Ratio discuss how the freight market is disconnected from the general economy; are we truly out of a freight recession; and how Freight Futures work.

New freight indices provide visibility on potential earnings premiums of scrubber-equipped vessels.

FreightTech 25 winners will be interviewed live, and attendees will get to hear commentary on the state of the industry and the recession, as well as the outlook for 2020.

The Baltic Exchange has been unrivaled in its creation of indices for dry freight futures. That may be about to change.

Brian Aoaeh explains why the trucking industry is ready for freight derivatives.

FreightWaves President George Abernathy makes hedging fun at CSCMP Edge 2019.

Critical events caused more panic than actual disruption to supply and demand.

FreightWaves is underscoring its commitment to the beneficial cargo owner community through deeper engagement with the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals, or CSCMP.

According to Euronav, the derivatives market in low sulfur fuel oil is not deep enough to provide a viable IMO 2020 hedge – but it will be soon.

Freight Futures lane to watch today: ATL to PHI

Freight Futures lane to watch today: East US Long Haul Van Average

Freight Futures lane to watch: LAX to SEA

The features allows SONAR users to see how sentiment evolves over time in the freight futures market.

Logistics startup Rivigo has introduced the National Freight Index in India, which will allow users to access individual lane level information in 1,500 locations across the country.

November contracts from Los Angeles to Dallas traded at $2.103/mile as positive consumer confidence numbers were released.

Chicago to Atlanta should jump in September, LA to Dallas peaks in November, and Seattle to LA hits a high in December.

The volatile 2018 freight market is still being felt throughout the nations trucking industry. The freight futures settlement

An exclusive interview with John Kartsonas, the developer of the BDRY exchange-traded fund that tracks bulker rates.

We caught up with Gary Saykaly, who is running a new Trucking & Freight Derivatives Group at Lakefront Futures & Options.

Lakefront Futures & Options will be marketing Trucking Freight Futures through its new Trucking Derivatives Group. Read the article and learn more about Trucking Freight Futures and Lakefront Futures & Options.

On Monday afternoon at Transparency19, Addison Armstrong, executive director of trucking freight futures at FreightWaves, moderated a conversation between Nodal Exchange, where freight futures are traded, DAT, whose rate indexes the futures contracts are settled against, and K-Ratio, a commodities trading advisor based in Chicago advising carriers and shippers on hedging strategies.  Danny Gomez, senior […]

J.B. Hunt wants to make freight marketplaces more efficient by making information more transparent.

Plus: Grocers adopt AI; surge in immigrant truck drivers; California’s latest emissions bill

Southwest surfed the volatility in petroleum markets and maintained a strong financial position by aggressively hedging jet fuel.

Southwest surfed the volatility in petroleum markets and maintained a strong financial position by aggressively hedging jet fuel.

The futures contracts will provide a way for carriers, shippers and third-party logistics providers to hedge their exposure to truckload spot rate volatility.

FreightWaves, Nodal Exchange, DAT and ABInBev hosted the seventh Freight Futures Road Show in St. Louis on Wednesday, February 27. The show introduced transportation and logistics leaders to Trucking Freight Futures.

The audience in Atlanta was one of the most engaged and informed to date.

What the Truck is going on in all things freight this week? We are visited by two special guests for this week’s episode: Zach Strickland and making his “inaugural debut” Michael Crosby. Weekly Market Update: What is happening from a carrier’s perspective, and what is happening from a shipper’s perspective? We’ve got the yen and the yang. Futures: And as a matter of fact, it’s these two different points of view that make for a trucking freight futures market: Houston and Dallas. And then Zach and Chad play a round of Big deal, little deal (what’s the deal with you)?

Trading of futures contracts can help market participants minimize their exposure to risk. Freight brokerage K+L Freight has launched a subsidiary, K-Ratio, to help its customers navigate the Trucking Freight Futures market when it launches on March 29.

Financial market executive gives a vote of confidence in the success of the trucking futures market by taking the helm

FreightWaves, DAT, Nodal Exchange, and K-Ratio pitched trucking freight futures to a diverse group of financial institutions and media and tech companies on Wall Street on Wednesday.

Trucking Freight Futures are designed to offer market participants a chance to offset their risk in the trucking market. Stocks edge up as dollar advances. Amazon adds “transportation and logistics services” to the long list of industries and services it views as competition.

FreightWaves will live stream each of its Trucking Freight Futures road shows, allowing everyone who participates in the freight market to learn how they can offset their exposure to price swings.

Access to data has improved market transparency, and recent spikes in volatility make the case that transportation costs must be hedged and de-risked.

Cohen, a 30 year air cargo veteran of United Airlines and Etihad Airlines has been appointed as FreightWaves Market Expert, Air Cargo. In this role he will be providing analytics and commentary about the air cargo market and will be working with data partners in the air cargo space.

In addition to overseeing FreightWaves’ legal and compliance elements, Martin will serve as Market Expert for compliance and legal aspects of the freight industry

TAC Index Managing Director Peyton Burnett demonstrates his platform, explains how the data is processed, and outlines the potential for the derivatives market based on reliable air cargo price discovery.

Leading freight exchange marketplace celebrates 40th anniversary with market and software innovations.

The spot market has been cooling over the past several months, but the players seem more uncertain than ever.

This morning at MarketWaves18 in Grapevine, Texas, FreightWaves CEO Craig Fuller announced that freight futures will begin trading on March 29, 2018.

As it continues work toward disrupting the traditional diesel-powered truck market in North America, Nikola Motor Company is eyeing another continent: Europe.

We spoke with Mark Haraburda about FreightWaves’ new data and content partnership with Barchart, a leading digital provider of commodities and futures data.

Trucking Freight Futures are coming. Learn more at MarketWaves18 with our complementary and comprehensive Trucking Freight Futures training!

45 companies applied for a spot in the annual Innovators Pavilion at the FIA Futures & Options Expo, 15 finalists were chosen, 5 were selected by a panel of judges to present at the at FIA Innovator of the Year pitch competition, but only 1 came out on top.

Corporate and industrial borrowing in China in the third quarter of 2018 surged to the highest level since 2013, just as the US Administration gets ready to impose the largest round of trade tariffs so far, targeting $200 billion worth of goods. A progressively weakening economy likely means a return to old school stimulus in fixed asset investments. .

K & L Freight has invested heavily in technology and data and grown 5x in the past two years. The next step is offering financial services to help their shipper customers hedge against spot market volatility.

In a speech attacking the very premises of decentralized cryptocurrency exchanges, BitMEX CEO Arthur Hayes laid out what traders really care about, and what makes futures exchanges successful.

Trucking passes all five of Paul Newman’s tests for a successful futures market. That’s why we’re building a financially-settled freight futures contract with Nodal Exchange and DAT.

General Mills is citing higher freight costs as a reason for lower than expected earning. This is not an uncommon issue in today’s marketplace. There could be solutions coming in the future. 

Shippers move more freight into the contract market to avoid higher spot market rates

Energy and financial markets economist joins the FreightWaves data-science team. 

Driver recruiting, media, data application expert, Ken Smith, joins the FreightWaves team as CTO. 

Leading commodities, markets-data news, and blockchain expert joins FreightWaves as Executive Editor and BiTA’s Head of Member Engagement.

Senior UPS Economist, Ibrahiim Bayaan joins the FreightWaves team as Chief Economist. 

The Baltic Exchange is scheduled to end its freight futures exchange platform, Baltex, today. 

George Abernathy, an industry veteran, joins TransRisk as the company accelerates growth

TransRisk, the developer of the first trucking futures contract, raises a venture capital round led by Bill Ford’s mobility venture investment fund. Seven other venture investors participated in the capital raise. 

One of the largest financial exchanges in the world has partnered with DAT and Chattanooga-based TransRisk to launch a futures contract based on trucking spot rates. The venture brings together the benchmark pricing index with one of the largest financial exchanges in the world. 

Founded with the purpose of addressing volatility for brokers, carriers and shippers in major shipping lanes through risk-management solutions, TransRisk is one step closer to doing just that. The company, along with DAT Solutions and Nodal Exchange jointly announced an agreement to develop, market and list the first and only trucking freight futures and options on futures contracts.

TransRisk, a pioneer of solutions designed to allow transportation industry participants to efficiently manage price risk in the North American freight transportation market, has added nationally recognized transportation markets leader Donald Broughton to its team.