Fluent Cargo partners with Sea Sentinel AI to deliver real-time risk intelligence for ocean freight

The collaboration brings proactive disruption alerts and contextual freight data to Fluent Cargo users, helping freight forwarders and shippers stay ahead of supply chain disruptions.

Sea Sentinel AI‘s API-first platform processes around 500,000 news articles daily, alongside data from more than 12 national weather services, AIS vessel tracking, government sources, and social media to identify risks affecting ocean freight. Unlike traditional visibility tools that only track vessel locations and calculate ETAs based on speed and distance, Sea Sentinel AI provides contextual intelligence: strikes, port congestion, extreme weather events, and other disruptions that impact cargo movements.

The platform uses artificial intelligence combined with a human-in-the-loop verification approach to ensure accuracy and avoid false alerts. This dual-layer system allows Sea Sentinel AI to map risk data directly to specific vessels and ports, delivering precise alerts such as: “There’s a strike in Hamburg from December 8-10, and your vessel will be there on December 9.”

Fluent Cargo has integrated Sea Sentinel AI’s data into its platform, including the recently launched Ask Fluent AI search feature. This integration enables freight forwarders to deliver proactive customer service, and avoid scenarios where shippers learn about disruptions before their freight forwarder does. What makes this partnership powerful is how Fluent Cargo contextualises event intelligence and inserts it into each customer’s specific shipments as they plan and manage shipments in real time. Whether users are end customers managing their own logistics, freight forwarders serving multiple clients, or consultants advising on supply chain strategy, they can see precisely which of their shipments are affected, when, and where. This is where Fluent Cargo completes the picture – taking disruption intelligence and transforming it into real-time visibility and proactive problem management tailored to each user’s actual cargo movements.

The partnership addresses a growing need in the logistics industry as supply chains face increasing volatility from strikes, extreme weather events, and geopolitical disruptions. With margins tightening across the freight forwarding sector, access to timely risk intelligence has become a key differentiator for service providers looking to enhance their customer experience.

Julien Jaacks, Sea Sentinel AI Founder, said: “Most ETAs are calculated purely on speed and distance, but logistics is far more complex than that. Strikes, cyclones, port congestion – these disruptions have a significant impact on container arrival times, yet they’re often missed until it’s too late. By working with Fluent Cargo, we can deliver this intelligence layer into the hands of freight forwarders and shippers, giving them the foresight they need to make better decisions and stay ahead of disruptions.”

Fluent Cargo CEO Archival Garcia, said: “We’ve partnered with Sea Sentinel AI because in today’s volatile supply chain environment, knowing the location of your cargo isn’t enough – you need to know what’s around the corner. This partnership gives us the ability to help freight forwarders shift from reactive to proactive logistics management, with risk intelligence that complements our routing, tracking, and planning tools perfectly.”