SpotBarge

SpotBarge — Commercial inland-waterway freight intelligence: historical, real-time and 14-day forecast water levels for strategic Rhine gauges (Duisburg, Cologne, Kaub, Maxau); a proprietary loadable-capacity model converting water level into loadable tonnage and cubic metres for standard barge classes (110 m = 2,500 t / 3,000 cmb; 135 m = 3,500 t / 4,100 cmb) with cargo-density awareness; barge position and tracking data; and barge freight rate observations plus bunker prices across the Rhine and FARAG (Rotterdam-Antwerp-Ghent) region. Sold explicitly as a data service with an interactive me…

SpotBarge offers (Alternative, Supply Chain, Price) — Continuous historical, real-time and 14-day forecast series across four headline Rhine gauges (plus an interactive measurement-point map implying a wider station set), loadability curves for each predefined barge class and cargo density, daily freight-rate and bunker-price observations per route, and an accumulating log of barge positions, cargo postings and fixtures. Volume is measured in years of daily market observations rather than large data size..

Barge freight-rate forecasting and freight-index construction conditioned on water level, refinery and depot supply feasibility models (the page names refinery feasibility and depot supply explicitly), agricultural commodity and chemicals logistics cost models, parametric low-water business-interruption triggers for riverside industry, capacity-availability and tonne-kilometre supply models for the Rhine-FARAG corridor, back-testing of the 2018, 2022 and 2023 low-water freight shocks, and training of freight-pricing, tender-matching and vessel-dispatch agents on the historical tender-to-fixture record.

The data is with 4 years of history.

Coverage spans Europe, US, UK; Marine, Financial Exchanges & Data; alternative, supply_chain, price; equities, commodities.