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Freightos has launched a free-to-use airfreight index in a direct challenge to the incumbent, TAC Index.
Based on transactional air cargo prices, it provides visibility into “hundreds of airport pairs” and will be published each Sunday, showing the prior week’s anonymised data.
Freightos has seen a year-on-year rise in bookings of more than 2,000%, with 30 airline members now covering 40% of the world’s capacity in FTKs.
Interestingly, it has “some significant differences from the TAC Index”, particularly on the transatlantic, CEO Zvi ...
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RASITHA Gunawardana
November 05, 2021 at 4:45 amVery informative. Like that article.