Freight Marketplace
Market Insights for shippers
Know the real market rate across more of your European network.
For NEXT 2026, coverage expands with more than 150 additional standard-equipment lanes and 353 new Mega, Reefer, Jumbo and LHV index lanes. A native Market Insights Assistant adds conversational guidance and one-click Lane Brief and Market Summary reports.
Your view into the future
Freight rates can rise quickly when capacity tightens. By the time increases reach your contracts, it’s often too late to react.
Market Insights shows rate trends, capacity signals and rejection patterns early — helping you decide whether current price increases reflect real market developments, plan the right tender timing and prepare budgets with a clearer view of where rates are heading.
Benchmark more of your network, beyond standard equipment
Real freight networks also use Reefer, Mega, Jumbo and LHV equipment, but equipment-specific market intelligence is often difficult to find.
Market Insights adds 353 new named equipment-specific index lanes across Europe, alongside more than 150 additional Core Metrics lanes for standard equipment — giving you broader factual context for negotiations, planning and internal approvals.
Make smarter spot vs contract decisions
Spot prices can spike during tight capacity periods, but sometimes they’re lower than contracts. Without market visibility, sourcing decisions become guesswork.
Market Insights shows spot trends and contract benchmarks so you know when to buy spot, when to secure contracts and how to balance both.
Turn market data into clear answers, with AI built in
Dashboards can show that a rate moved. The harder task is understanding why it moved and what it means for your next decision.
The native Market Insights Assistant supports MI-scoped questions and conversational follow-ups inside the product. Its one-click reports turn the current view into a concise Lane Brief or Market Summary. Dedicated Market Insights skills in Arc extend the same expertise into broader structured analysis and cross-product workflows.
Available modules
TRIMBLE ARC AGENT
Walk into every negotiation with the market on your side
Trimble Arc Agent brings together real-time FTL rates, lane benchmarks and capacity signals from Transporeon Market Insights, so you can negotiate with confidence.
Who is Market Insights for?
Operational
When you need answers for today’s shipments
Monitoring
When you need to explain and defend cost developments
Strategic
When you plan ahead and manage long-term cost risk.
Operational
When you need answers for today’s shipments
Monitoring
When you need to explain and defend cost developments
Strategic
When you plan ahead and manage long-term cost risk.
The future starts now
Everything you need to understand Freight Rates
Markets provides a high-level overview of the European FTL market. Price development and capacity movements are easily recognizable by looking at our EU level price and capacity indices. Enhance your understanding of the market and make better decisions about your tenders.
Lanes provides an in-depth analysis of your trade lanes at country or regional level. With all-in transport rates and leading indicators like rejections and spot offers at your disposal, you get a comprehensive overview of a lane which helps you to improve your transportation strategy.
Better understand the cost drivers for carriers. Costs provides total cost of ownership data at both market and lane level. The market costs view shows the detailed development of all cost factors on European level. The lane costs view shows the detailed development of all cost factors for the 70 biggest lanes in Europe.
The price per km is the ultimate metric, no doubt. But tracking rejection rates and spot offers can also be used as leading indicators for spot pricing. We track everything so you get all the information you need.
Rate on Demand is a service that predicts all-in buy rates for FTL transports on the spot market. After entering a set of transport parameters (postal codes, loading and unloading dates and times, vehicle type, industry and more), the service instantly returns a spot price including all extra costs for the requested FTL transport.
Market data is essential, but it is not always self-explanatory. Freight Perspectives brings expert interpretation directly into Market Insights, so procurement teams can turn trends into actions. Get clear takeaways on market developments, risks and opportunities, delivered in digestible formats that are easy to share internally and use in planning. Now included in Market Insights.
AI-assisted market interpretation, directly inside Market Insights. Market data alone can still leave you to connect the dots. The native Market Insights Assistant adds freeform MI-scoped chat, conversational follow-ups, guided prompts and subscription-aware access inside the product. Its one-click reports generate a concise Lane Brief or Market Summary from the currently open view. When a task requires non-MI data, broader workflow orchestration, or actions outside Market Insights, dedicated Market Insights skills and broader capabilities in Arc provide the next step.
Want a dedicated human expert instead of self-serve AI? Our Market Intelligence Advisory team offers hands-on, peer-benchmarked guidance and a long-term strategic partnership.
Our Market Intelligence Advisory team gives you an objective benchmark based on validated, cleansed data and an expert team that helps interpret what the numbers mean for your specific network and procurement strategy. The result is clearer negotiation leverage, better budget planning and more confident procurement decisions.
Markets provides a high-level overview of the European FTL market. Price development and capacity movements are easily recognizable by looking at our EU level price and capacity indices. Enhance your understanding of the market and make better decisions about your tenders.
Lanes provides an in-depth analysis of your trade lanes at country or regional level. With all-in transport rates and leading indicators like rejections and spot offers at your disposal, you get a comprehensive overview of a lane which helps you to improve your transportation strategy.
Better understand the cost drivers for carriers. Costs provides total cost of ownership data at both market and lane level. The market costs view shows the detailed development of all cost factors on European level. The lane costs view shows the detailed development of all cost factors for the 70 biggest lanes in Europe.
The price per km is the ultimate metric, no doubt. But tracking rejection rates and spot offers can also be used as leading indicators for spot pricing. We track everything so you get all the information you need.
Rate on Demand is a service that predicts all-in buy rates for FTL transports on the spot market. After entering a set of transport parameters (postal codes, loading and unloading dates and times, vehicle type, industry and more), the service instantly returns a spot price including all extra costs for the requested FTL transport.
Market data is essential, but it is not always self-explanatory. Freight Perspectives brings expert interpretation directly into Market Insights, so procurement teams can turn trends into actions. Get clear takeaways on market developments, risks and opportunities, delivered in digestible formats that are easy to share internally and use in planning. Now included in Market Insights.
AI-assisted market interpretation, directly inside Market Insights. Market data alone can still leave you to connect the dots. The native Market Insights Assistant adds freeform MI-scoped chat, conversational follow-ups, guided prompts and subscription-aware access inside the product. Its one-click reports generate a concise Lane Brief or Market Summary from the currently open view. When a task requires non-MI data, broader workflow orchestration, or actions outside Market Insights, dedicated Market Insights skills and broader capabilities in Arc provide the next step.
Want a dedicated human expert instead of self-serve AI? Our Market Intelligence Advisory team offers hands-on, peer-benchmarked guidance and a long-term strategic partnership.
Our Market Intelligence Advisory team gives you an objective benchmark based on validated, cleansed data and an expert team that helps interpret what the numbers mean for your specific network and procurement strategy. The result is clearer negotiation leverage, better budget planning and more confident procurement decisions.
Start negotiating with market facts
Frequently Asked Questions
Market Insights helps shippers understand what is happening in the freight market right now. It provides market context and data that support procurement, pricing and negotiation decisions.
Freight markets lack transparency, making it difficult to judge whether prices reflect real market conditions. Market Insights adds market context so you can validate rates, understand trends and make more confident decisions.
Market Insights helps you make better sourcing decisions, manage freight costs more proactively and understand how your lanes compare to the wider market. It delivers this through clear market views and lane-level analysis.
Market Insights consists of three core modules — Core Metrics, Rate Benchmark, and Contract Rate on Demand. For NEXT 2026, Market Insights adds more than 150 Core Metrics lanes for standard equipment and 353 new named index lanes for Mega, Reefer, Jumbo, and LHV equipment across Europe. The modules help customers understand market trends, compare rates with market averages and obtain price guidance for supported lanes.
Yes. Market Insights includes contextual AI actions — one-click generators that turn charts and lane views into ready-to-share reports, narratives and RFQ inputs. For deeper, conversational analysis, Arc — Trimble's AI agent — works alongside Market Insights, with first-class MCP access to Market Insights data and a growing library of market intelligence skills. Together they help you move from reading charts to decision-ready outputs you can drop straight into an RFQ, negotiation or planning update. Market Insights itself does not include a native chat — conversational workflows live in Arc.
Core Metrics with a one-country dashboard (Germany) is available free of charge. Pricing for additional modules depends on how you use the tool — for example, the number of lanes you benchmark, the number of rate requests you need, or the number of countries you want to cover. Book a demo or contact us to discuss the setup that fits your network.
Yes. You can access current rate indications for specific lanes, supporting new tenders, network changes, or pricing scenarios where you need additional market context.
In addition to data, Freight Perspectives is included by default. It comes with expert commentary that explains what is driving market developments and what those changes mean for freight planning and procurement.
Market Insights works well as a self-service tool, but some situations require deeper, like-for-like comparisons and expert guidance. Market Intelligence Advisory helps you benchmark using carefully selected peer data — for example, comparing only with shippers from similar industries or transport profiles. You also become part of a shipper community facing similar challenges, with access to dedicated webinars, events and tailored market reports. The Advisory team acts as a strategic sparring partner and trusted point of contact, helping you interpret market developments and turn insights into concrete procurement actions.
Market Insights combines anonymized transactional freight data, predictive rate modeling and capacity trend analysis to generate reliable market benchmarks. By aggregating shipment data across thousands of European lanes and applying statistical normalization, the system filters out outliers and identifies true market movements. This methodology ensures benchmarks reflect actual trading conditions, not isolated carrier quotes, enabling defensible procurement decisions.
Market Insights is based on real shipment data from more than 120,000 daily transports across >400 European corridors, giving a broad and reliable picture of market movements. It provides precise rate visibility down to postcode level, helping you benchmark with a level of detail many tools do not offer. You can compare your own transport data with the market through bulk uploads or API connections. As part of the wider Transporeon Transportation Network, Market Insights connects with procurement and execution solutions and is backed by Transporeon and Trimble — long established logistics technology providers.