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Predictive intelligence for air cargo, before the market reprices.

Lima Xi models how a geopolitical event cascades through global air freight — fuel, capacity, rates, transit — and gives your team the lead time to act on it. Built by the operators who spent decades finding out too late.

3 weeks of lead time on the Strait of Hormuz escalation.

Corridor Tension Index LIVE
HKG → FRA
Hong Kong – Frankfurt
95
EXTREME
PVG → LAX
Shanghai – Los Angeles
91
EXTREME
DXB → LHR
Dubai – London
67
ELEVATED
FRA → JFK
Frankfurt – New York
44
MODERATE
CASCADE ALERT · T+6H

Strait of Hormuz escalation — aviation fuel pressure forecast on 11 corridors. Recommended action: hedge Middle East–origin lanes within 18 hours.

41 CORRIDORSUPDATED 06:00 HKT
3wks
Lead time demonstrated on the Hormuz escalation
41
Trade corridors monitored continuously
14
Downstream effects modelled per trigger event
T+72h
Confidence-scored forecast horizon
How it works

Detect the signal. Model the cascade. Act before the market.

Most freight technology tells you where things are. Lima Xi tells you where they are going — and what it will cost you if you wait.

01 — DETECT

Catch it while it's still a signal

Continuous monitoring across geopolitical, capacity and market inputs on 41 trade corridors. The event registers the moment it emerges, not when it reaches the trade press.

See detection live →
02 — MODEL

Trace 14 downstream effects

The cascade engine propagates each trigger outward through fuel, capacity, rates, transit and SLA exposure — issuing confidence-scored forecasts at T+6h, T+24h and T+72h.

Read the method →
03 — ACT

Get a recommendation, not a chart

Hedge, reposition, renegotiate, notify — ranked actions with dollar-quantified impact, delivered while the rest of the market is still reading headlines.

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The platform

This is the cascade, as it happens.

The platform modelling a live Strait of Hormuz escalation — corridor scores climbing, the yield forecast repricing itself, recommended actions populating one by one. What your team would have seen, seventy-two hours earlier.

lima-xi · live scenario · strait of hormuz LIVE
SCENARIO
Hormuz escalation T+0 → T+72h
CORRIDORS AFFECTED
11 of 41 monitored
CASCADE EFFECTS TRACED
14 downstream
Solutions

One signal. Five very different decisions.

The same corridor intelligence answers a different question depending on who is asking it.

Airlines & GSAs

Hedge and position before the spike is public

Capacity deployed to the wrong market is a permanent loss — a freighter cannot un-fly. Lima Xi gives yield and network teams a forward view on corridor demand while there is still time to move.

  • 01Fuel hedging windows ahead of aviation fuel pressure
  • 02Belly capacity repositioning before rates reprice
  • 03Corridor-level demand signal for network planning
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Yield Scenario · HKG–FRAMODEL
Baseline yield
Current contracted rate
$4.12/kg
T+72h forecast
Post-cascade repricing
$5.38/kg
Spread captured
If positioned today
+30.6%
Confidence
Model certainty
0.82
YIELD SCENARIO ENGINEMODELLED
Freight Forwarders & 3PLs

Call the customer with a plan, not an apology

Forwarders live on trust. Lima Xi surfaces disruption risk and alternate routing while there is still time to pick up the phone first — turning a service failure into a demonstration of competence.

  • 01Alternate routing evaluated before the lane closes
  • 02Proactive customer communication with options attached
  • 03SLA breach exposure quantified in advance
Explore for forwarders →
Routing Exposure · Live BookingsLIVE
SLA RISK · 3 SHIPMENTS

Pharma consignment PH-4471 routed via DXB. Corridor tension 67 and climbing. Alternate via DOH adds 9h, avoids forecast 3-day delay.

PH-4471
Pharma · DXB transit
AT RISK
EL-2280
Electronics · PVG–LAX
MONITOR
AP-9013
Apparel · FRA–JFK
CLEAR
SLA EXPOSURE · $1.2M3 OF 47 SHIPMENTS
Shippers, BCOs & institutions

Put a number on exposure your CFO recognises

Freight risk is treated as an operational line item until it becomes an earnings conversation. The Yield Scenario Engine models disruption in the same language a treasury desk already uses for currency and commodity risk.

  • 01Scenario-modelled freight cost exposure by corridor
  • 02Board-ready risk reporting with dollar figures attached
  • 03Corridor resilience input for infrastructure planning
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Scenario Exposure ModelMODEL
Hormuz closure · 30d
Network-wide freight cost
+18–30%
Red Sea diversion
Sustained rerouting
+12–20%
Taiwan Strait tension
Escalation scenario
+22–35%
Major port congestion
Regional event
+8–15%
MODELLED ON YOUR LANE MIXILLUSTRATIVE
Insights

What we're seeing on the corridors

Analysis on predictive freight intelligence, corridor risk, and the disruptions reshaping global air cargo.

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Case study

How Lima Xi predicted the Hormuz Strait impact before it happened

The model flagged corridor risk three weeks ahead of market-wide repricing. Here is what that lead time was actually worth.

6 MIN READ→
Foundational

What is predictive freight intelligence?

The definition, how it differs from the analytics tools most operators already run, and why the distinction changes decisions.

8 MIN READ→
Comparison

Predictive vs. reactive freight intelligence

A capability-by-capability comparison of what reactive tooling delivers and what prediction adds on top of it.

7 MIN READ→
Analysis

The belly capacity problem nobody prices correctly

Why cost-plus pricing on belly cargo leaves 18–30% on the table, and what dynamic corridor pricing would change.

IN PROGRESS
Market

Disruption is no longer episodic. It is structural.

Four years of corridor data showing why the frequency of major trade disruption has changed the planning problem permanently.

IN PROGRESS
Method

How we score a corridor: inside the Tension Index

The inputs, the weighting, and why a single 0–100 number is the right abstraction for a capacity decision.

IN PROGRESS
Frequently asked

Questions we get
in the first meeting

Straight answers. If yours is not here, ask us directly.

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What is Lima Xi?

Lima Xi is a predictive air cargo corridor intelligence platform. It models how geopolitical events cascade through global air freight — fuel, capacity, rates, transit and SLA exposure — and delivers confidence-scored forecasts before those effects reach the market.

How is this different from visibility or rate benchmarking tools?

Visibility platforms and rate benchmarks describe what has already happened — where a shipment is, what a lane cost last week. Lima Xi is forward-looking: it forecasts what happens next, modelling a trigger event outward across corridors so you can act before the market reprices. Read the full comparison →

What is the Tension Index?

A proprietary 0–100 score measuring capacity crunch risk on a specific air freight corridor. It compares theoretical supply — scheduled capacity and payload specifications — against macro demand and geopolitical pressure signals, updating continuously across 41 monitored corridors.

How much lead time does Lima Xi actually provide?

The platform issues confidence-scored cascade forecasts at T+6 hours, T+24 hours and T+72 hours. On the Strait of Hormuz escalation, the model flagged corridor risk approximately three weeks ahead of market-wide rate and capacity impact. See the case study →

Does it replace our yield management or TMS system?

No. Lima Xi is a forward intelligence layer that feeds better signal, earlier, into the yield management, network planning and transport management systems you already run. It complements those systems rather than replacing them.

Who is it built for?

Airlines and GSAs for yield and capacity positioning, freight forwarders and 3PLs for routing and SLA protection, large shippers and BCOs for board-level risk quantification, governments and port authorities for infrastructure resilience planning, and institutional investors with logistics exposure.

What stage is the company at?

Lima Xi is seed-stage, headquartered in Hong Kong SAR. The MVP platform is complete and operational, and we are actively recruiting design partners among airlines, GSAs and freight forwarders. Investor details →

How do I get access?

Access is currently limited to design partners, who get early platform access, direct founder collaboration, roadmap influence and no-cost pilot participation. Request a conversation →

Something is forming on your corridors right now.

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