SONAR Dashboards provide curated, pre-built views of the most important freight market data across transportation modes and economic indicators. Each dashboard brings together key datasets, charts, maps, and insights into a single interface, allowing users to quickly understand market conditions without needing to build their own analysis from scratch.
These dashboards are designed to surface the most relevant signals driving freight markets today. Instead of navigating thousands of individual datasets, dashboards organize SONAR data into clear, focused views that highlight trends, disruptions, and opportunities across the supply chain.
SONAR dashboards cover multiple sectors of the freight economy, giving users visibility into how different parts of the transportation market interact.
Executive-Level Market Summaries
The Executive Dashboard consolidates high-level indicators across transportation modes and macroeconomic signals to provide a quick pulse check on the overall freight market.
Global Trade and Geopolitical Impacts
Dashboards such as the Trade War Command Center and Regional Trade Analysis monitor maritime container flows, international trade activity, and geopolitical developments that may impact supply chains and freight demand.
Ocean and Air Freight Rates
The Ocean and Air Rates Dashboard provides visibility into international transportation costs across maritime container shipping and air cargo markets. Users can monitor spot and contract ocean rates across major global trade lanes, track air freight pricing trends, and identify shifts in international shipping demand. These insights help explain changes in import activity, global supply chain pressure, and the downstream impact that international freight costs can have on domestic transportation markets.
Truckload Market Conditions
Dashboards such as Truckload National Insights and Key Market Insights track tender volumes, rejection rates, spot and contract rates, and capacity conditions. These views help identify tightening or loosening markets and provide context for pricing and coverage decisions.
Energy and Fuel Costs
The Fuel Dashboard tracks diesel prices, rack costs, and related energy indicators that influence transportation expenses. Monitoring fuel volatility helps explain shifts in carrier operating costs and rate pressure across the market.
Intermodal Performance
The Intermodal Dashboard provides visibility into rail container volumes, intermodal capacity trends, and how rail service is performing relative to truckload. This helps users evaluate modal shifts and alternative transportation options.
Together, these dashboards provide a multi-modal perspective on the forces shaping supply chain performance.
SONAR dashboards accelerate analysis by organizing complex freight data into structured, easy-to-interpret views. Instead of building charts and pulling datasets manually, users can immediately access curated insights designed by freight market experts.
Key benefits include:
By combining high-level market visibility with access to SONAR’s full dataset library, dashboards help transportation professionals move from data to decision faster.
