# FreightWaves — Vendor Intelligence Profile
> Source: Vedex (https://vedex.ai) | Generated: 2026-10-05T10:32:17.424Z

## Overview

- **Vendor Type**: data_provider
- **Headquarters**: Chattanooga, United States
- **Year Founded**: 2017
- **Employee Count**: 300
- **Description**: FreightWaves is a leading provider of high-frequency data, news, and analytics for the global freight and logistics industry, offering real-time market intelligence through its SONAR platform to help supply chain participants make informed decisions.
- **Slogan**: The source for global supply chain market intelligence.
- **Domain**: freightwaves.com
- **Company Website**: http://www.freightwaves.com

## Categories & Sectors

- **Categories**: Logistics, Supply Chain, Transportation, Freight Market Data, Economic Indicators
- **Sectors**: Transportation, Logistics, Manufacturing, Retail

## Marketplace Presence

- **Source Platforms**: alternativedata_org, datarade, exabel_catalog
- **Platform Count**: 3
- **Delivery Methods**: REST API, Web UI download, S3 Bucket, Snowflake Share
- **Geographic Coverage**: Global with primary focus on North America

## Intelligence Scores

- **Vendor Score**: 50.2
- **Market Presence**: 37.4
- **Trust & Compliance**: 40
- **Integration**: 62.1
- **AI Readiness**: 36
- **Business Maturity**: 53
- **Support & Operations**: 60.8

## Trust & Compliance (vendor-reported)

> These are the vendor's own attestations as collected from public sources, not Vedex's. Verify directly with the vendor.

- **Trust Score**: 48/100 (based on vendor-reported attestations, not verified by vedex)
- **SOC 2 Type II**: In progress
- **ISO 27001 Certified**: No
- **GDPR Compliance**: Partially
- **Encryption Standards**: AES-256 for data at rest and TLS 1.2+ for data in transit
- **Penetration Testing**: Annual third-party penetration testing
- **Historical Breach Record**: No public incident found in our search (unverified)
- **Data Residency Options**: US
- **Written Compliance Policies**: Data privacy, Information security, Intellectual property

## AI & ML Readiness

- **LLM-Friendly Output Formats**: Structured JSON with schemas
- **File Formats Supported**: JSON, CSV, Parquet

## Business & Funding

- **Funding Stage**: Series A
- **Estimated ARR Range**: $10-50M
- **Key Customers**: J.B. Hunt, Schneider, C.H. Robinson, Uber Freight
- **Key Partnerships**: Oracle, SAP, Microsoft Azure

## Competitors

- **Competitors**: Datalastic, GeoPostcodes, Petabite, TAC Index

## Products

### SONAR
- **Pricing**: $10,000
- **Free**: No
- **Categories**: Trade
- **Link**: https://vedex.ai/products/sonar-9bba8b/llms.txt

### Trucking Fleet Data
Datasets providing insights into trucking fleet operations and market capacity.
- **Pricing**: $7,500
- **Free**: No
- **Link**: https://vedex.ai/products/trucking-fleet-data-18daac/llms.txt

### Rail Traffic Data
Data feeds tracking rail freight volumes and intermodal traffic trends.
- **Pricing**: $36,000
- **Free**: No
- **Link**: https://vedex.ai/products/rail-traffic-data-4dd5a3/llms.txt

### Aviation Data
Data feeds related to air cargo and aviation logistics trends.
- **Pricing**: $36,000
- **Free**: No
- **Link**: https://vedex.ai/products/aviation-data-682021/llms.txt

### SONAR
A high-frequency market intelligence platform providing real-time freight, supply chain, and logistics data, including tender indices, volume, and capacity metrics.
- **Pricing**: $36,000
- **Free**: No
- **Link**: https://vedex.ai/products/sonar-7d6be7/llms.txt

### FreightWaves TRAC
A capacity dataset providing insights into freight market capacity and spot rate trends.
- **Pricing**: $31,000
- **Free**: No
- **Link**: https://vedex.ai/products/freightwaves-trac-bd771e/llms.txt

### Container Atlas
A high-frequency data offering within SONAR that tracks global container movements and supply chain trends.
- **Pricing**: $32,500
- **Free**: No
- **Link**: https://vedex.ai/products/container-atlas-c43521/llms.txt

### Marine Traffic Data
Data related to vessel positioning and maritime operations, including AIS reports.
- **Pricing**: $304
- **Free**: No
- **Link**: https://vedex.ai/products/marine-traffic-data-ede5a4/llms.txt

## Links

- Vedex Profile: https://vedex.ai/vendor/freightwaves-fa0c5a
- Due Diligence: https://vedex.ai/due-diligence/freightwaves-fa0c5a