WiseTech Global launched the Ocean Freight Risk Outlook, a free four-week forward-looking view of ocean freight capacity.
Designed to help shippers and freight forwarders anticipate changes and manage challenges, the dashboard provides directional risk scores and forecasts published monthly, fed by aggregated data and WiseTech’s analysis across the three major ocean trade lanes: Asia – North America, Asia – Europe, and Europe – North America.
“Ocean freight is in a continual state of volatility, with tariffs, geopolitics and capacity pressures constantly reshaping the market,” says Jon Charles, product manager at WiseTech. “Managing uncertainty increasingly means making decisions before problems emerge. By bringing together signals on capacity, carrier performance, and booking conditions, the Ocean Freight Risk Outlook helps shippers and freight forwarders make more informed decisions about how and where they move goods.”
Key takeaways:
· The four-week forecast helps spot where trade lanes may tighten before pressure shows up in bookings, capacity, or pricing.
· Trade Lane Risk summarizes the four-week risk forecast for three major trade lanes, highlighting where capacity, booking acceptance, service reliability, port performance, and transit time signals may create operational pressure.
· Capacity Risk shows where forecast demand exceeds planned carrier supply, and where tightening conditions may increase booking disruption or reduce confidence in securing space.
· Reliability Risk highlights where service performance may affect lead times across key trade lanes. It combines carrier on-time arrival performance, delay severity, port performance, and scheduled transit time signals to show where disruption risk is increasing, easing, or remaining stable.
· Carrier Risk compares on-time performance and booking security risk across major carriers, showing how carrier selection can influence booking outcomes, service reliability and supply chain risk.
· The Ocean Freight Risk Outlook also provides visibility into differences in carrier performance, which can vary sharply even on the same trade lane.
