Pull your Baltic Exchange data into your own systems

What you can build on the Baltic Exchange

• Get a family's latest route assessments

  Build this

  Opens one of the Baltic families in My Baltic, such as Capesize or Panamax, and reads the latest value of each index and route in it.

  Takes

  Family, date (optional)

  Returns

  Route code, description, value, unit, assessment date

• Get the history of one index or route

  Build this

  Reads the values of one index or route, such as C5 or the BDI, between two dates from My Baltic's charting and download tools.

  Takes

  Route or index code, from date, to date

  Returns

  Code, date, value, unit

• Read the Baltic Forward Curves for a route

  Build this

  Reads the Baltic Forward Curves for one route or time-charter average, with the current index value beside them, when your subscription includes them.

  Takes

  Route code, date (optional)

  Returns

  Route code, current index value, period, forward value, unit, assessment date

Automate the Baltic Exchange with a workflow

A workflow runs your methods as one process, with nobody at the screen. A schedule or a call from your own system starts it, the steps run in order, and the result arrives in your inbox or in the systems you already use.

• Evening route assessments for the chartering desk

  Build this

  Starts

  Every weekday at 18:00 London time

  Step 1

  For each Baltic family you name, get the family's latest route assessments.

  Step 2

  Keep the routes whose value changed since the last run.

  Step 3

  Email you the table, one section per family, with code, value and unit.

• Daily index values into your data warehouse

  Build this

  Starts

  Every weekday at 19:00 London time

  Step 1

  For each code in your list, get the history of that index or route for today.

  Step 2

  Stop when no code has a value for today.

  Step 3

  Post code, date, value and unit to your warehouse webhook.

• Weekly forward curve snapshot for the risk team

  Build this

  Starts

  Every Friday at 18:00 London time

  Step 1

  For each route you name, read the Baltic Forward Curves.

  Step 2

  Compare each period's value with last Friday's run.

  Step 3

  Email you the curves with the change for each period.

You can run a workflow by hand on every plan, Free included. Schedules and webhook triggers come with the paid plans, from $29 a month.

Once built, one call from your code

Once you have built a method, it is one POST to /v1/runs from your backend, or a tool an AI agent calls over MCP. This is what “Get a family's latest route assessments” would look like.

curl https://api.fous.com/v1/runs \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FOUS_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "method": "balticexchange.com/get_family_route_assessments",
    "input": {
      "family": "Capesize"
    }
  }'

{
  "status": "completed",
  "data": {
    "family": "Capesize",
    "assessment_date": "2026-11-11",
    "routes": [
      {
        "code": "C5",
        "description": "West Australia to China",
        "value": 9.42,
        "unit": "USD/tonne"
      }
    ],
    "count": 1
  }
}

An example with invented data, not a ready-made endpoint. The method exists in your organization once you build it, and its name, inputs and fields follow your request.

The Baltic Exchange’s own options

The Baltic Exchange offers a RESTful Market Data API. In its portal you build feeds of indices, FFAs, FFA trades and fixtures, then read them as JSON with an API key. The data endpoints need an API entitlement, and the Baltic Exchange refers you to your local sales representative for it. Subscribers without it read and download data in My Baltic.

Read on November 12, 2026: Market Data API support, Market Data API user guide (PDF), Introducing the new Baltic Exchange website.

Signing in to the Baltic Exchange

My Baltic and the API portal use the same Baltic login as the Baltic App: your username and password, then a second step that is mandatory, by authenticator app or SMS, chosen at your first sign-in. With Fous you sign in through the Baltic Exchange's own sign-in with your own account. The login is sealed with AES-256, never returned by the API or written to logs, and code and AI agents never see it.

Worth knowing

Most data changes once a day

The Baltic Exchange says most index and FFA sources change once a day, so a schedule that runs once a day after publication catches each new value.

Your subscription decides what you see

You may not be entitled to every data type, and the API answers 404 for a source outside your licence. A method reads only the families and routes your own account has.

The second step is fixed

Once you choose authenticator app or SMS, you keep that method. You are asked to choose again only if the Baltic Exchange resets your MFA setup.

API keys can expire

Only one API key is active at a time. If you turn on API key management, keys get expiry dates, and an expired key answers 401 until you generate a new one and set it active.

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