The Whole Picture for Trade and Transportation
Get actionable insights for logistics, trading, and risk management.
New! Get Barge Freight Forecasts and Barge Flows with BargeAI™
- Get visibility into expected grain barge freight changes up to 12 weeks ahead.
- See the underlying fundamentals that drive these shifts.
- Access quantitative barge flow insights across key river segments, origins, and destinations.
- Track how barge accumulations are changing across river systems.
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Teams use these insights to manage freight exposure with real-world context.
BargeAI's Operational Benchmarking is Comprehensive Business Intelligence
- View industry-wide operating patterns across fleets, horsepower classes, and river segments.
- Benchmark transit performance such as miles per day and lock-to-lock times for comparable towboats and horsepower classes.
- Compare tow sizes across routes as river and operating conditions change.
Logistics teams use BargeAI™ to optimize asset productivity and to produce objective performance statistics.
Tow Tracker Provides Fleet Tracking and ETAs without the Back-and-Forth
- Get live towboat positions instantly.
- Save multiple fleets and share views across your team.
- Access immediate ETAs that account for weather, lock delays, and traffic.
- Use a simple interface designed for daily team operations.
Supply chain teams use Tow Tracker to replace time-consuming check-ins, adjust pipeline expectations, and verify fuel and emissions reports.
Get Instant Lock Transit Intelligence with BargeAI™
- Get immediate situational awareness of lock delays.
- Understand pool-to-pool transit times.
- Easily access current lock queues.
Logistics teams use the information in daily meetings to plan for constraints ahead. Barge lines share reports with clients to level-set on lock outages and delays.
Integrate Tow Activity Directly into Workflows with BargeAI™ and Tow Tracker APIs
- Manage and optimize towing productivity with comparative analytics.
- Report tow mileage and time consumed on journey legs for operated and hired vessels.
- Increase productivity with greater precision.
- Identify opportunities to improve asset utilization.
- Benchmark fuel and emissions charges.
- Strengthen margin per ton-mile.
Operations and FP&A teams use integrated tow data to improve forecasting accuracy and increase asset margins.
Trade & Risk Management with BargeAI™ - Grounded in River Reality
- Connect real-time vessel movement with historical barge data.
- Reveal insights such as
- Trade patterns
- Congestion risk
- Execution uncertainty across the waterways
- Use these river insights to
- Anticipate disruptions
- Strengthen supply chain decisions
- Manage exposure
Analysts and traders use real-time and historical barge movements to add quantitative transportation metrics to trade and risk decisions.