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Freight Rate Arbitrage Agent

Monitors live spot rates across sea, air and rail against the shipper's contract rate, and routes each shipment to whichever mode is currently cheapest for its urgency tier.

READS FROMSea/air/rail spot rate feeds, contract terms

MCP SERVERLogistics Data Server

MODELRouted to reasoning-tier open model

HANDS OFF TORoute Optimization & Dispatch Agent

RUN THE AGENT

Set your volume and rates, find the cheapest mix

Adjust monthly volume, urgency split and spot rates and the agent recalculates the optimal freight cost instantly.

ASSUMPTIONS

Monthly freight volume (tons) 3000

Current contract rate (£/ton) 85

Sea spot rate (£/ton) 62

Air spot rate (£/ton) 340

Rail spot rate (£/ton) 58

Volume needing expedited (air) transit 15%

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Optimal blended cost / month

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Savings vs contract rate / month

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Savings %

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Cheapest standard mode

Metric	Value

HOW IT WORKS

What the agent actually does

1. Monitor rates	Pulls live spot rates across sea, air and rail carriers alongside the shipper's existing contract rates.
2. Segment by urgency	Separates volume that can move on standard lead times from volume that needs expedited transit.
3. Route to the cheapest mode	Assigns each shipment to whichever mode and carrier is currently cheapest for its urgency tier.
4. Hand off	Flags contract lanes that are now consistently beaten by spot rates for renegotiation, and confirms bookings to the Route Optimization & Dispatch Agent for last-mile planning.