🚢 Freight & Shipping Cost Indices

Real-time indices for ocean and air freight rates — essential tools for pricing, budgeting and carrier negotiations.

• Drewry – World Container Index — Weekly container cost index across eight major shipping lanes.
• Freightos Baltic Index (FBX) — The daily, IOSCO-compliant global container index — ideal for volatile markets.
• Xeneta — Ocean and air freight rate benchmarking based on hundreds of millions of data points.
• Shanghai Containerized Freight Index (SCFI) — The China-outbound freight index, a key anchor for the Asian market.
• Baltic Exchange — Global shipping market indices, the industry’s historical reference point.
• Ship & Bunker — Real-time marine fuel (bunker) prices at leading ports.

📰 Supply Chain News & Intelligence

The world’s leading news and analysis sources for procurement, logistics, ports and international trade.

• Supply Chain Dive — Daily news on procurement, logistics, warehousing and technology.
• The Loadstar — Independent, high-quality journalism on container shipping and air cargo.
• gCaptain — One of the world’s most popular maritime and ports news sites.
• FreightWaves — Real-time data and analysis of the global freight market.
• Journal of Commerce (S&P Global) — In-depth business intelligence on ocean trade, ports and regulation.
• Reuters – Business — Global trade and commodities news from the world’s most trusted news source.

🏛️ Procurement — Authority, Research & Associations

The world’s leading professional bodies and research houses that set the standards and trends in the procurement profession.

• CIPS — The world’s leading professional body for procurement and supply (Royal Charter, 180 countries).
• ISM – Institute for Supply Management — The world’s oldest and largest supply management association.
• Gartner – Supply Chain — Research, rankings and forecasts for procurement and supply chain.
• Kearney – Procurement Consulting — World-leading procurement consulting, research and benchmarking.
• Procurement Magazine — A leading international magazine on procurement and strategy.

📊 Economic Data, Customs & Indices — Israel & Global

Official sources for exchange rates, price indices, import taxes and macroeconomic data — essential for pricing and budgeting.

• Bank of Israel – Exchange Rates — The official daily representative foreign-exchange rates.
• Israel Central Bureau of Statistics — Consumer price index, input cost indices and economic data.
• Israel Tax Authority – Import Tax Calculator — Calculate expected import taxes before purchasing from abroad.
• Israel Tax Authority – Customs Book — Customs tariff and goods classification by tariff code.
• Shipping & Ports Authority — Operational and regulatory information on Israel’s ports.
• Trading Economics — Macroeconomic indicators and commodity prices worldwide.
• World Bank – Data — International trade, economic and development data.

🤖 AI, Skills & Learning — The Hot Topic in Procurement

Artificial intelligence is fundamentally reshaping the procurement profession. According to the World Economic Forum, around 39% of required skills will become outdated by 2030. Here are the leading knowledge and learning sources to stay at the forefront.

• WEF – Future of Jobs Report — Mapping skills and employment in the AI era (170M new jobs by 2030).
• Kearney – AI in Procurement — How AI is reshaping the procurement function.
• Coursera — AI, data and procurement courses with certification from leading universities.
• edX — Academic AI and management courses from MIT, Harvard and leading institutions.
• LinkedIn Learning — Fast professional upskilling in business tools and AI.
• Skills IL — AI skills and tools in Hebrew, in the Israeli context.