Freight Market Insights: port congestion, transit times & supply chain risks, monthly.
Where's congestion building, which lanes are slipping, what's changed: answered with real data, monthly.
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Monthly Freight Market Insights: What You Get
Live Port Congestion Signals
Waiting times, congestion status, and week-over-week shifts across the world's key container ports.
Transit Time Trends
Actual vs. planned transit and carrier schedule reliability across major trade lanes, based on containers tracked on the Portcast platform.
What's New from Portcast
Product updates, useful resources, and the freight market intelligence shaping how forwarders and shippers plan ahead.
Preview: See What's Inside
Three steps from search to plan, with congestion data included at each stage.
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Read By Global Forwarders And Shippers
Including Fortune 100 companies from across the world.




Browse Past Editions

Shanghai swings back to high congestion
Our rebuilt congestion dashboard, Shanghai back to high congestion, and Indian Peninsula–Europe transit time running 5.4 days over plan.

AI Agents go live for logistics teams
The AI Agents launch, our Q2 transit-time report, and an insightful fireside chat with Mondelez.

Managing freight cost, not just tracking it
Cost Management for global forwarders and shippers, plus our Gartner Market Guide listing.

Where freight-invoice costs still slip through
Our Q1 transit report across 108 lanes, and a guide to help companies avoid freight-invoice leakage.

Recovering freight costs in a disrupted market
Freight cost recovery, and a detailed guide for F&B logistics teams.

Turning past shipments into performance data
A TPM 2026 update, our newly launched KPI Dashboard, and the supply-chain risks costing F&B teams millions.

Planning the year with clearer data
The KPI Dashboard, our Q4 2025 transit report, and PEPPOL e-invoicing explained.

