Who we are

We are an independent group of consultants with expertise in transportation, trade, Internet technologies, international law, banking, insurance, marketing and regulatory compliance. Our web site is designed to provide carriers and shippers with optimized efficiencies for application to the supply chain. Users of this site will benefit with a connecting bridge spanned across buyer, sellers, carriers, and the multiple supporting functions of third party logistics to complete a point-to-point transaction in either domestic or global trade.

Mission statement

Our global shipping cost calculator is point-to-point sale system designed to improve productivity and assist in automating freight services by providing shipping costs in an open public platform using simple inputs over Google's Map platform. The zooming capability of the Google platform allows users to visit the facilities available at both origin or destination seaports and airports which are included in our database.

Demo videos

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Sources and References

The freight TSI published by the Department of Transportation measures the month-to-month changes in the output of services provided by the for-hire freight transportation industries. The index consists of data from for-hire trucking, rail, inland waterways, pipelines and airfreight.

February 25, 2009 TSI index 105.1 Base line year 2000 = 100.

The Baltic Dry Index (BDI) one of the measures for global trade is a number issued daily by the London based Baltic Exchange. The index provides "an assessment of the price of moving the major raw materials by sea. Taking in 26 shipping routes measured on a time charter and voyage basis, the index covers Handymax, Panamax,and Capezie dry bulk carriers carrying a range of commodities including coal iron ore and grain".

February 25, 2009 BDI index exponential average 1726 points. Base line year 2002 = 1160 points.

Hamburg ConTex Index is compiled by a group of international operating brokers. February 25, 2009 308 points based on three classes of vessels. Base line 2008 = 515 points

Other indices and references used for calculation of rates are:

- Howe Robinson Container Index
- Simpson Spence & Young Ltd.
- Lloyd list
- Hamburg Index
- Drewery shipping indices
- CMA CGM Group
- DryShips Inc
- Imarex Worldscale freight rate Index
- ISL Shipping Statistics and Market Review
- Mitsui Research Office
- Transportation Research Board of the National Academies
- USDA Ocean Rate Bulletin