What is the Shanghai freight index?

What is the Shanghai freight index?

The Shanghai Containerized Freight Index is the most widely used index for sea freight rates for import China worldwide. This index has been calculated weekly since 2009 and shows the most current freight prices for container transport from the Chinese main ports, including Shanghai.

How is Shanghai Containerized Freight Index calculated?

How is SCFI calculated? Arithmetic mean is applied to calculation of SCFI freight rates of individual routes. The composite index is calculated by weighting average. The basis period of composite index is 16th October, 2009 and the basis index is 1,000 points.

Is there a freight cost index?

A freight rate index collects pricing information from multiple carriers, shippers or forwarders at regular intervals to calculate a benchmark or market rate for freight for any given shipping lane and provide visibility into freight rates for interested parties.

Are freight rates from China coming down?

According to their analysis, trans-Pacific container spot rates between China and the U.S.’s East and West coast ports are down by half between January and March 2022.

What is a container index?

The World Container Index (WCI) is the premium resource for frequent, independent container market data. The WCI provides weekly assessments of container freight rates, daily forward price estimates and a bank of historical price movements.