Panjiva, ImportGenius and ImportYeti: what they do, and what they don't
If you have looked for trade data you have met these three. They are good products and they are not the same product. Choosing between them is easier once you see what each was built to do.
They are built for different readers
Panjiva, now part of S&P Global, is supply-chain intelligence for analysts. Its strength is depth on shipment records and the relationships between them — who ships to whom, through which port, over time. It is priced and sold accordingly: enterprise contracts, seat licences, procurement cycles.
ImportGenius is the same core data with a lighter commercial wrapper. Bills of lading, searchable, monthly subscription. Popular with brokers and smaller traders who want to look something up rather than run a research programme.
ImportYeti took the US bill-of-lading dataset and made it free and fast to search. It is the best free entry point that exists, and it is limited to US maritime imports.
All three are built around the same question: what moved, and between whom. That is a research question. It is answered by giving you records.
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A different question
A sales team asks something else: who do I call on Monday. Those are not the same question, and a shipment record does not answer the second one. It gives you a company name and a port. Turning that into a conversation still requires finding the company, finding the right person, and confirming the company is real and currently operating.
That gap is where we work. We index the same public customs records, but the unit of delivery is a contactable company rather than a shipment: name, tax identifier, product codes, phone, email, and a check of whether the company is currently registered, licensed and free of active sanctions.
Across Mexico, Brazil and Argentina that is 136,234 companies, of which 282,369 have a working phone or email against a specific product code.
Where each one wins
| If you need… | Use |
|---|---|
| US maritime shipment lookups, free | ImportYeti |
| Bill-of-lading search, self-serve | ImportGenius |
| Deep supply-chain analysis, enterprise | Panjiva |
| A contact list of Latin American buyers for one product | What we do |
Two things worth knowing before you buy anything
Coverage is not uniform. Bill-of-lading data is strong for US maritime and weak or absent for air freight, land crossings and most non-US customs regimes. Mexico's overland trade with the United States barely appears in it. Ask which regime and which transport modes a dataset actually covers before you assume your category is in there.
Freshness varies by country, not by vendor. Brazil's product-level series was discontinued in 2021. No vendor has fresher Brazilian product data, because it does not exist. Anyone implying otherwise is selling the same four-year-old records with a newer interface.
We would rather tell you that than have you find out after you buy.
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