Ekho Labs — Prescriptive intelligence for global freight

PO-level reroutes, carrier alternatives, and booking windows — delivered into your TMS days before disruption hits.

Ekho delivers prescriptive actions for freight disruptions — reroutes, alternatives, booking windows — at the purchase-order level, before ops know there's a problem.

Risk Domains We Monitor

Geopolitical: Sanctions, conflicts, policy shifts, trade tensions
Environmental: Extreme weather, climate events, natural disasters
Trade & Tariff: Tariffs, regulations, customs, compliance changes
Logistics: Port congestion, labor actions, capacity constraints

Core Capabilities

Detect: Monitors real-time unstructured data — social media, local news, carrier filings, port telemetry, sanctions lists, and weather models. Continuously.
Correlate: Links a Suez suspension to Rotterdam berth waits to your specific booking window.
Quantify: Tells you Hamburg–Jeddah is now 40 days, not 14. Shows where the delay comes from.
Prescribe: Delivers reroute options, carrier alternatives, and booking windows directly into your TMS — at the purchase-order level — before your ops team knows there's a problem.

Built for Operational Decision-Makers

Global Freight Forwarders: Anticipate route disruptions before they impact customer shipments.
Ocean Carriers: Detect port congestion and weather routing risk early.
Global Manufacturers: Quantify supply chain exposure to geopolitical events and trade shifts.
Trade & Compliance Teams: Monitor regulatory and sanctions-driven route risk.

Integration

Ekho delivers prescriptive actions into your TMS, ERP, and WMS — where your teams already work. Live in under 24 hours. No system replacement.

Contact

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Prescriptive intelligence for global freight

Act before the disruption
reaches your PO.

PO-level reroutes, carrier alternatives, and booking windows — delivered into your TMS days before disruption hits.

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Built for freight teams managing ocean lanes through the world's most disrupted corridors.

PO-4471 · Hamburg → Jeddah 3 min ago

Proactive reroute Hapag-Lloyd Al Jasrah · 14,850 TEU · depart Apr 3

Original

Suez transitvia Port Said

14 days

Suspended

+19 d penalty if no action — Cape reroute forced on current vessel.

Recommended

Tanger-Med altMSC Leyla · transship

11 days

Reroute confirmed

Departs 3 d earlier. Faster ETA. No equipment surcharge.

Your TMS shows the news.
Ekho shows the reroute.

Hormuz Day 18 — Intelligence Brief 18 March 2026

8–14 mo Expected reopening

50% Protracted standoff

35% Escalation scenario

+26 d Transit penalty

Sources: EIA · Lloyd's List · carrier filings · AIS · sanctions feeds · confidence 0.82

Prescribed action

Reroute confirmed. MSC Leyla via Tanger-Med departs 3 days earlier — faster ETA, no surcharge.

✓ 25 days later: the call held. Transit penalty landed at +24d. See the verification →

Ekho built a platform that does what I have always needed as a supply chain executive. It connects dots across weather, social sentiment, congressional voting, union communications, and everything that actually predicts disruption.

Renée Ure

Former COO, Lenovo ISG · Advisor, Ekho Labs

Featured in RANE Network

Case study · 01

Hamburg → Jeddah · Called 18 days early.

March 2026 · Suez closure · Cape reroute confirmed before carrier filing

01 · Alert delivered to TMS

Proactive reroute 3 min ago

Hamburg → Jeddah · PO-4471 · Hapag-Lloyd Al Jasrah

Suez closure likely within 72 hrs (0.82 confidence). Cape reroute will add 19 days if not acted on now.

▸ Reroute confirmed. MSC Leyla via Tanger-Med departs 3 days earlier — faster ETA, no surcharge.

02 · Route comparison

Original · Suspended Cape reroute

Baseline

14 d

New transit

40 d

Penalty

+26 d

03 · Escalation · 10 days

Feb 28

US–Israeli strikes. Carriers suspend Suez transit.

Mar 01

Gemini reverses Suez return. All carriers → Cape.

Mar 02

Iran strikes Ras Laffan. 20% of global LNG offline.

Mar 05

Reinsurers exit. P&I clubs cancel. Traffic −80%.

Mar 10

Iran mines Hormuz. EM-52 rocket mines deployed.

04 · Verdict

15%

Fast
resolution

50%

Protracted
standoff

35%

Further
escalation

Forecast delivered 18 days before carrier filing.

Read the full brief → See the verification →

Integration

Delivered into the systems your teams already use.

No system replacement. No software install. Read-only API integration into your TMS, ERP, and visibility stack. Designed to sit alongside CargoWise, SAP TM, Oracle OTM, Descartes, and others — integration scope tailored to your stack during onboarding.

SaaS. SSO/SAML. Role-based access.
Live in under 24 hours.

Methodology

How the forecast is built.

Ekho combines 10,000+ public and licensed data sources — sanctions registries, AIS, port authority feeds, carrier EDI, weather models, social signal networks, and congressional/union communications — into a comprehensive risk model for freight teams.

Data sources10,000+

Update cadencereal-time

Median lead time12 days

Economics

The cost of acting late.

A single disruption triggers costs across multiple lines. They compound fast:

Detention & demurrageper container, per day

Equipment premiumssurcharges on scarce capacity

Rebooking & reallocationnew carrier, new window, new rate

Downstream delayswarehouse, last-mile, production

Customer impactSLA penalties, satisfaction, service recovery

Ekho helps teams make the call earlier — before these costs stack.

Your next disruption is already forming.

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