Freightos takes on TAC with new airfreight index

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Online market Freightos, a global freight booking platform, has added a benchmark pricing index for airfreight alongside its daily composite of 40-foot container shipping rates known as the Freightos Baltic Index.

The weekly product, based on real-time transactional air cargo data, is a direct challenge to the Hong Kong-based TAC Index, the primary conduit for tracking aggregated pricing movement in the industry for several years.

The extreme volatility of air cargo rates and tight supply of...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/freightos-takes-on-tac-with-new-airfreight-index

Baltic Exchange enters airfreight market with pricing index

Baltic Exchange

The Baltic Exchange, a centuries-old provider of maritime market information, has turned its attention to the sky by entering a partnership with air cargo pricing publisher TAC Index.

The London-based exchange will generate six outbound airfreight indices and 17 individual destinations, which will be offered under the Baltic Air Freight Index (BAI). TAC, based in Hong Kong, will keep these indices current.

The BEI indices will be priced in U.S. dollars per kilogram of freight and cover the key...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/baltic-exchange-enters-airfreight-market-with-pricing-index

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