As global energy markets become increasingly shaped by logistics, freight has moved from being a downstream operational cost to a core driver of price formation, risk, and market structure. Today, the ability to understand freight dynamics is no longer optional for market participants, it is foundational to assessing delivered economics, route viability, and commercial opportunity.
To support clients in navigating this shift, Parameta Solutions has expanded its Energy & Commodities and Real-Time Oil offering to include Freight Market Data, powered by specialist freight and oil intelligence from Marex.
This newly launched dataset provides transparent, market‑reflective insight into clean and dirty tanker routes across global markets, enabling clients to assess route economics and freight‑driven volatility with greater clarity.
“This launch is about delivering total cost of trade for customers, connecting oil price signals and freight to help them evaluate real-time economics across routes and markets. By bringing these inputs together, we’re giving customers a clearer view of delivered route economics to support faster, confident decisions. It’s the first step in a broader roadmap of products we are building together with Marex,” said Silvina Aldeco-Martinez, Chief Executive Officer at Parameta Solutions.
Why freight matters more than ever
Over the past year, freight markets have experienced sustained volatility driven by shifting trade flows, geopolitical tensions and extended voyage distances. Tanker availability, longer reroutes, and increased risk premia have pushed freight rates to multi‑year highs, amplifying their impact on delivered oil prices.
In this environment, access to credible freight data has become essential for:
- Understanding delivered route economics from crude to refined products
- Identifying cross‑market opportunities across regions and products
- Managing logistics‑linked risk across physical and paper markets
- Interpreting real‑world price formation beyond headline benchmarks
Freight is no longer a supplemental input; it is a defining part of the energy pricing landscape.
What’s included in the new Freight Market Data offering
Parameta’s Freight Market Data covers a wide range of clean (TC) and dirty (TD) tanker routes across EMEA, APAC and the Americas. The dataset includes freight pricing, route benchmarks and real‑time updates to reflect evolving market conditions.
Clients can now integrate freight intelligence directly alongside existing crude and refined product indices delivered by Parameta, allowing them to understand both the value of the barrel and the cost of moving it.
The new dataset enables:
- Transparent freight pricing that reflects real physical and paper markets
- Real‑time visibility into tanker rate movements and logistics bottlenecks
- Enhanced analytics for netbacks, delivered pricing and trade viability
- Improved cross‑market insight where oil and freight signals intersect
This creates a more complete picture of energy market behaviour, critical at a time when logistics are playing a growing role in shaping price outcomes.
Part of a broader roadmap
The launch of Parameta’s freight dataset marks the first phase of a broader collaboration between Parameta Solutions and Marex, announced today through a new netback pricing offering combining oil and freight data.
This collaboration leverages Parameta’s data infrastructure and Marex’s market expertise to support the development of future cross‑market pricing solutions, additional derived data products, and deeper integration across oil and freight markets.
Bringing customers closer to the “total cost of trade”
As market structure becomes increasingly complex, the ability to evaluate real‑time delivered economics is emerging as a competitive differentiator. By offering both oil and freight datasets within a single analytical framework, Parameta Solutions is helping clients move beyond headline prices to understand the total cost of trade, supporting faster and more confident decisions across trading, risk and analytics teams.
Parameta Solutions is a leading specialist in OTC Oil market data. Sourced exclusively from the trading desks of TP ICAP, we deliver high quality, independent data to buy side and sell side institutions.
- Unmatched barrel coverage: Crude, light ends, middle distillates, fuel oil and LPG, backed by data from three of the world’s largest oil brokers.
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