Xeneta opens New York City office

Oslo, Norway-based Xeneta, a global benchmarking and market intelligence firm with a focus on the containerized ocean freight industry, has opened its first U.S. office in New York City.    Xeneta, a global benchmarking and market intelligence firm with a focus on the containerized ocean freight industry, has opened its first U.S. office in New York City.
   The office will be headed by CEO Patrik Berglund and William Di Ieso, the company’s director of business development for the Americas.
   Xeneta, which started operations in Oslo, Norway in 2012, collects data from more than 600 companies, providing information across more than 17 million contracted rates and covering over 60,000 port-to-port pairings.
   “The recent collapse of Hanjin Shipping shows how quickly the market develops, with oversupply switching to under-supply, new services being launched and rate hikes across the board. The only way to really keep up with such a dynamic segment, and get the best prices for your cargoes, is to stay on top of the very latest big data analysis and decipher market trends,” Berglund said in a statement. “As the biggest importer of containerized ocean freight, the U.S. has a greater need for this new breed of market intelligence than anywhere else.”