Flexport fields in every export
Research records carry the title, publication date, author or team as credited, trade lane or region, mode - ocean, air or ground - topic tags, summary and the full text where a client needs it for analysis.
Where a piece contains numeric claims - transit times, capacity changes, congestion figures, index values - those are extracted as their own records with the value, unit, the period it describes and the piece it came from. A number buried in prose is invisible to any query; the same number as a row with a source reference is usable and checkable.
Mode and lane are first class fields, because ocean and air behave differently enough that a combined analysis is rarely meaningful, and lane is how anybody in freight actually asks a question.
Service network data - the routes and services described publicly - is collected where published, since coverage is a structural fact about a forwarder that is otherwise hard to assemble.
Every row carries the collection timestamp and the source address.