We built this because we understood the problem.
Most visibility tools show you that something changed. TradeLanes was built to tell you what it means for your operation, and what to do about it.
Export execution breaks at a specific moment.
The vessel schedule changes. The cargo receiving window compresses. And the team finds out after the decision was already made.
This is not a data problem. The data exists, on carrier/terminal sites, in vessel schedule PDFs, in carrier portals. The problem is that the data arrives in the wrong form, from conflicting sources, at the wrong time. By the time a team reconciles it, the planning window has already closed.
TradeLanes was built to close that gap. To detect changes the moment they occur, validate them against the right source, and surface them in a form that enables decisions before the window is gone.
What makes TradeLanes different
Three choices that shaped the product. Each one was a deliberate departure from how visibility tools usually work.
We measure the behavior, not just the event
Any tool can show that an ERD changed. TradeLanes tracks how that terminal behaves on that service over time, so the signal is contextual, not just a raw update.
We validate before we alert
Most alerting tools fire on every change. TradeLanes evaluates whether the change compresses a real decision window before surfacing it. Operators get fewer alerts. Each one matters.
We publish what we find
The Terminal Volatility Index, the Decision Timing Brief, and Vessel Schedule Stability Index are not marketing materials. They are the measurement infrastructure we built to formalize a problem the industry has historically absorbed informally.
The people we work with
Reference accounts, in their own words.
Everyone thinks that it's really freaking cool that you knew that before we did.
Derek Roetzel, Tyson Foods
We stopped refreshing carrier pages. The alert comes to us.
Nina Solari, Avanti Nut
Knowing where and when the changes hit is what changed our routine.
Alex Velazquez, Capay Canyon Ranch
How we think about this market
There is no pre-existing budget line called "Cargo Receiving Window Stability Software." We are formalizing a structural problem the industry has historically absorbed informally. Once instability is quantified and visualized, it stops being operational noise and becomes an operational control problem. Operational control problems create budget.
If this problem is real for your operation, we should talk.
We work best with teams that already know they have this problem and are evaluating how to solve it.
Talk to the TeamExporters and logistics partners already operating on TradeLanes
