Pre-booking intelligence
Lane Friction Search
A freight rate and a transit time describe two of the three numbers that decide what a shipment costs. The third is friction: how long the box actually waits at the destination, how many free days the carrier's filing grants there, and what the overrun converts into once demurrage, detention and congestion surcharges stack. Pick a lane and compare carriers on that third number before you book.
Published lanes
- Shanghai → Los Angeles / Long Beach
- Shanghai → New York / New Jersey
- Ningbo-Zhoushan → Los Angeles / Long Beach
- Shenzhen → Los Angeles / Long Beach
- Shanghai → Rotterdam
- Shanghai → Antwerp-Bruges
- Singapore → Rotterdam
- Busan → Los Angeles / Long Beach
- Jebel Ali → New York / New Jersey
- Shanghai → Savannah
- Shanghai → Hamburg
- Rotterdam → New York / New Jersey
How the numbers are built
Destination queueing comes from the Sellexio Port Friction Index, computed from our own AIS anchorage-to-berth observations. Free days, day counting and escalation bands come from the Free-Time Matrix. Everything shown is modelled from those sources plus published tariff structure — it is not a filed rate, not a booking quote, and a negotiated service contract always overrides it.