Shipping.com

Shipping.com is a shipping intelligence and marketplace platform that provides inside information on the best deals across the shipping industry worldwide. The platform enables carriers, shippers, and third-party logistics companies (3PLs) to access reduced shipping rates, improve revenue opportunities, and optimize transportation supply chain operations. Shipping.com is headquartered in New York City and connects members of the transportation and logistics industry with competitive pricing and market intelligence across all major ocean freight trade lanes.

Shipping.com publishes 3 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Shipping, Freight, Logistics, Transportation, and Marketplace.

The Shipping.com catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Shipping.com’s developer surface includes engineering blog, code examples, and 7 more developer resources.

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30.4/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 5/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-05 · rubric v0.9.1
AccessFreemium
3 APIs
ShippingFreightLogisticsTransportationMarketplaceRate IntelligenceOcean FreightSupply Chain

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scored 2026-08-05 · rubric v0.9.1
Composite quality — 30.4/100 · thin
Contract Quality 3.2 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 0.4 / 20
Commercial Clarity 7.9 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.1 / 13
Governance 8.3 / 12
Discoverability 6.5 / 10
Agent readiness — 5/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 7 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
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APIs 3

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Shipping.com Rate Intelligence Platform

Shipping.com provides a marketplace and intelligence platform for the ocean freight and logistics industry. The platform aggregates freight rates from major carriers and provide...

Freightos Baltic Index (FBX)

The Freightos Baltic Index is the global benchmark for container freight rates, providing weekly assessments of freight rates across major trade lanes. The FBX provides spot mar...

World Bank Commodity Markets Data

The World Bank provides commodity price data including shipping-related indices such as the Baltic Dry Index (BDI) and fuel prices that affect freight rates. This data is used f...

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Shipping Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Shipping Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Shipping Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Shipping Context

31 classes · 4 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Shipping.com API Rules

5 rules · 3 warnings 2 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 1

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Shipping Rate

14 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 1

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Shipping Rate Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 1

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Shipping Rate Example

14 fields

EXAMPLE

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Shipping Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

JSONSchema
JSONSchema

Design & Contract 3

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

JSONStructure
JSONStructure
 JSONLDContext
JSONLDContext
 Vocabulary
Vocabulary

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Examples
Examples

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website
Website
 Blog
Blog
 LinkedIn
LinkedIn

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: shipping
name: Shipping.com
description: Shipping.com is a shipping intelligence and marketplace platform that provides inside information on the best
  deals across the shipping industry worldwide. The platform enables carriers, shippers, and third-party logistics companies
  (3PLs) to access reduced shipping rates, improve revenue opportunities, and optimize transportation supply chain operations.
  Shipping.com is headquartered in New York City and connects members of the transportation and logistics industry with competitive
  pricing and market intelligence across all major ocean freight trade lanes.
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/shipping.png
tags:
- Shipping
- Freight
- Logistics
- Transportation
- Marketplace
- Rate Intelligence
- Ocean Freight
- Supply Chain
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/shipping/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-05-02'
modified: '2026-05-02'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: shipping:shipping-platform
  name: Shipping.com Rate Intelligence Platform
  description: Shipping.com provides a marketplace and intelligence platform for the ocean freight and logistics industry.
    The platform aggregates freight rates from major carriers and provides rate comparison, market analytics, and procurement
    tools. Carriers publish their rates on the platform while shippers and freight forwarders use it to find the best deals
    across major trade lanes. No public developer API is currently available; the platform is accessed via the web portal
    at shipping.com.
  humanURL: https://www.shipping.com/
  tags:
  - Shipping
  - Freight
  - Rate Intelligence
  - Marketplace
  - Ocean Freight
  properties:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.shipping.com/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.shipping.com/
- aid: shipping:freightos-baltic-index
  name: Freightos Baltic Index (FBX)
  description: The Freightos Baltic Index is the global benchmark for container freight rates, providing weekly assessments
    of freight rates across major trade lanes. The FBX provides spot market freight rate data for routes including Trans-Pacific,
    Asia-Europe, and Transatlantic lanes. Used by Shipping.com and the broader industry for rate benchmarking.
  humanURL: https://fbx.freightos.com/
  tags:
  - Rate Index
  - Benchmarking
  - Ocean Freight
  - Market Data
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://fbx.freightos.com/
  - type: Reference
    url: https://fbx.freightos.com/api
- aid: shipping:world-bank-commodity-markets
  name: World Bank Commodity Markets Data
  description: The World Bank provides commodity price data including shipping-related indices such as the Baltic Dry Index
    (BDI) and fuel prices that affect freight rates. This data is used for freight market analysis and rate forecasting.
  humanURL: https://www.worldbank.org/en/research/commodity-markets
  tags:
  - Market Data
  - Commodity Prices
  - Economic Data
  - Open Data
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.worldbank.org/en/research/commodity-markets
  - type: Reference
    url: https://api.worldbank.org/v2/
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/shipping-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.shipping.com/
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.shipping.com/blog/
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/shipping-com/
- type: JSONSchema
  url: json-schema/shipping-rate-schema.json
- type: JSONStructure
  url: json-structure/shipping-rate-structure.json
- type: JSONLDContext
  url: json-ld/shipping-context.jsonld
- type: Examples
  url: examples/shipping-rate-example.json
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/shipping-vocabulary.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com