Freightwaves

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Global shipment-level customs and bill-of-lading data at industrial scale: 230 markets with more than 500 million shipment records added annually, refreshed daily, covering importer and exporter names and addresses, commodity detail and HS codes, weights and quantities, ports, vessel and carrier, with verified company contact attributes appended in some geographies. Now fronted by a natural-language agent that returns answers, visualisations and the underlying shipment records. The company also markets a separate free-trade-agreement intelligence product combining AI with regulatory and rules-of-origin content.

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Universe, instruments and categories.

Industry: Application Software
Instruments: equitiescommoditiesfixed_income
Categories: Alternative

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Type: not stated
Format: Tabular — structured shipment records delivered through a hosted subscription platform with dashboards, plus natural-language query and record export; historically also delivered as extracts to enterprise customers
Volume: More than 500 million shipment records added annually across 230 markets, with daily refresh — implying an accumulated archive well into the billions of records over a multi-decade collection. Restated from the vendor's published counts.
Users: Tens of thousands of licensed seats platform-wide (inferred: an established enterprise subscription product sold globally through a listed logistics-software group; no seat count published for this dataset alone)
History: not stated
Update frequency: not stated
Growth: Active — a newly launched AI agent inside the platform plus recent AI releases for document management and free-trade intelligence, from a company that continues to acquire and integrate logistics software assets
Launched: ~2010-2013 for the Datamyne trade-intelligence product within the Descartes portfolio (Datamyne is a long-established trade-data brand predating its acquisition, with the underlying collection older still)
Delivery: not stated
Entity mapping: not stated
Sample: not stated
Point-in-time: not stated
Licence: not stated

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