Know what a chokepoint costs your lane — before the surcharge hits.
Freight Watch's AI reads shipping news, advisories & carrier notices all day and emails you a plain-language brief for your exact trade routes — with the surcharge, war-risk insurance and closure impact estimated in rupees. Built for Indian importers, exporters & forwarders.
No credit card. Weekly brief on the house. Generic global shipping news won't tell you what your Nhava Sheva→Rotterdam box now costs. We do.
Live AI scan of today's shipping news for your lane. Free preview · 5/hour.
A war-risk premium or emergency surcharge can add lakhs per shipment with 24-48h notice. Most exporters find out from the invoice.
“Red Sea tensions” headlines are everywhere. Whether they touch your Mundra→Genoa boxes — and by how much — is the part nobody tells you.
Small EXIM teams can't watch Lloyd's List, carrier advisories and 8 news wires daily. Your AI analyst can.
From global noise to your lane, in rupees
Tell us your India port and destinations. We map each lane to the chokepoints it actually crosses — Hormuz, Bab-el-Mandeb/Suez, Malacca, Panama, Cape of Good Hope.
Every day our agent scans maritime press, advisories and carrier notices, then filters to only what touches your lanes — surcharges, war-risk insurance, closures, congestion.
A plain-language email brief with a severity rating and a rupee cost-impact estimate per container. Real-time alerts the moment something breaks on Pro & Business.
Simple pricing. Priced in rupees.
Start free. Upgrade when a single avoided surcharge has already paid for the year.
See the value on one lane.
- ✓ 1 trade route
- ✓ Weekly digest brief
- ✓ Chokepoint mapping
- ✓ Severity rating
For active importers & exporters.
- ✓ 10 trade routes
- ✓ Daily briefs + real-time alerts
- ✓ Rupee cost-impact estimator
- ✓ Email alerts on every breach
- ✓ Full source links
For freight forwarders & brokers.
- ✓ Unlimited routes
- ✓ Everything in Pro
- ✓ WhatsApp alerts
- ✓ Priority brief generation
- ✓ GST invoice
Put your lanes on watch
Your first brief lands within the week. Pro & Business activate instantly after checkout.
Frequently asked
Which chokepoints do you monitor?
Strait of Hormuz, the Red Sea / Bab-el-Mandeb / Suez corridor, Strait of Malacca, Panama Canal, the Cape of Good Hope re-routing, the Taiwan Strait and the Black Sea / Bosphorus. Each of your lanes is mapped to the ones it crosses.
How is the rupee cost-impact estimated?
We apply transparent, auditable math — war-risk insurance as a % of cargo value, per-TEU surcharges at current USD/INR, and re-routing day-costs — to a typical container profile. It's an indicative estimate to size your exposure, not a carrier quote.
Is this just global shipping news?
No. The whole point is route-specific filtering. We discard anything that doesn't touch your lanes, so a Mundra→Genoa exporter never wades through Panama Canal drought updates.
What do I get on the free plan?
One route and a weekly digest — enough to see the value. Pro (₹2,499/mo) adds 10 routes, real-time alerts and the cost-impact estimator; Business (₹4,999/mo) is unlimited routes plus WhatsApp alerts.