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Where price and transit time sit over the next eight weeks. Pick a lane, read the range, book with your eyes open.

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11 Indian origins · 14 overseas ports and airports · Demo data

Chennai to Shanghai

Sea freightabout 13 days door to door6,340 kmSnappy Crew runs this lane

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Data through

How it travels
  1. INMAAChennaiOrigin
  2. Sea13 days · 6,340 km
  3. CNSHAShanghaiDestination

Price outlook

Sea freight, per 20ft container · INR

Move across the chart (or focus it and use ← →) to read any week.Touch the chart to read a week. Swipe right for the past year.
₹1.1L₹1.2L₹1.3L₹1.4LDecFebAprJunAugOctDecData through 8 NovNext 8 weeks, magnifiedShip wk 6 Dec
Paid, weekly (per 20ft container)Expected80% band95% band
See the forecast as a table
Weekly forecast with 80 and 95 percent ranges, per 20ft container
WeekWeek ofExpected80% range95% range
115 Nov₹1,23,600₹1,19,300 – ₹1,27,800₹1,17,100 – ₹1,30,000
222 Nov₹1,25,300₹1,20,100 – ₹1,30,600₹1,17,300 – ₹1,33,300
329 Nov₹1,26,900₹1,21,200 – ₹1,32,700₹1,18,100 – ₹1,35,700
46 Dec₹1,28,300₹1,22,200 – ₹1,34,400₹1,19,000 – ₹1,37,700
513 Dec₹1,29,600₹1,23,200 – ₹1,36,000₹1,19,800 – ₹1,39,300
620 Dec₹1,30,700₹1,24,100 – ₹1,37,300₹1,20,600 – ₹1,40,800
727 Dec₹1,31,600₹1,24,800 – ₹1,38,500₹1,21,200 – ₹1,42,100
83 Jan₹1,32,500₹1,25,400 – ₹1,39,500₹1,21,700 – ₹1,43,200

Delivery record

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A few deliveries are slipping

On time · 30 days82%23 of 28 deliveries
Typical delay4 dayswhen late (5 late)
Deliveries per day late

23 of 28 deliveries in the last 30 days arrived on time; the late ones ran about 4 days behind. The 90-day norm is 89% on time. Reported causes: vessel bunching at the destination port; a few rolled bookings at origin.

Experimental estimate, not a quote.

Rates into East Asia dip before the Lunar New Year factory shutdown and recover once it ends. Prices pooled across the lane; no shipment or customer is shown. Demo figures.

Six lanes, read every week

The lanes the crew checks first every Monday. Pick one and it loads into the cockpit.

Change is the expected price eight weeks out against this week. Status reads the last 30 days of deliveries. Demo figures.

A truck with one orange container on a coast road

How the forecast is made

Plain statistics, tested in the open. No black box, and no number we would not stand behind.

  1. Two years of what was actually paid

    Every week we record the price really paid on the lane, per container or per kilo. The model reads 104 weeks; a lane with less than 26 weeks of prices gets no number at all.

  2. Two simple models, side by side

    One follows the recent trend. The other also repeats the lane’s yearly shape, such as the pre-Christmas lift on Europe lanes. Whichever guessed better in testing is the one you see.

  3. Tested on weeks it never saw

    We hide the latest 12 weeks, forecast them, and compare. The average miss sets the width of the band, and the cockpit reports how often the real price landed inside it.

What it cannot do

A forecast you can plan with has to say where it stops.

  • It cannot read the newsIt learns from prices, not events. A strike or a closed strait shows here only once it reaches the price. Trade watch covers the events.
  • Thin lanes get no numberUnder 26 weeks of history, the cockpit says so instead of guessing.
  • Further out is widerThe band widens every week ahead. Two months out it is roughly three times the one-week band.
  • It is not a quoteSpace, surcharges and the details of your cargo move the real price. The crew confirms it within 24 hours.
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Lock in Chennai → Shanghai

The forecast tells you where the price is heading. The crew turns it into a real plan, a real price and a date for a lane of about 13 days, within 24 hours.

From
Chennai
To
Shanghai
Mode
Sea freight
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What could move this lane

Trade watch on East Asia

  1. WatchToday · Carrier capacityBlank sailings on the Pacific trim relay space out of East Asia
  2. Clear8 days ago · WeatherTyphoon outlook: East Asian ports plan normal operations
Illustrative briefingsAll East Asia briefings

Start a shipment. Chennai to Shanghai. Plan, price and date within 24 hours.