Shanghai Container Shipping Index represents the changing direction and degree of settlement freight rate in Shanghai export container spot shipping market, and reflects the short-term contract market of liner companies within three months, the market of FAK customers and the open market, and the retail contract market reached by freight forwarding companies and customers. The transaction price is not affected by the owner's enterprise type or the particularity of container volume. Settlement freight rate is the average level of settlement freight rate after liner companies and freight forwarders set sail. Among them, the total market share of sample liner companies must exceed 80% of the total market of the route; Sample freight forwarding enterprises should keep the annual shipment of prepaid goods above 1000TEU in the spot market of this route, and ensure a stable number of transactions per week and a mature business system.

Shanghai container shipping index

I. Characteristics

1. Route setting: SCFIS has launched two major route indexes: Shanghai to Europe and Shanghai to the western United States. The port of origin is Shanghai Port, the European routes are Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp, Stowe, fleek and le havre, and the western routes of the United States are the base ports of Los Angeles, Long Beach and Auckland.

2. Transport terminology: yard to yard, referred to as CY-CY.

3. Commodities: general commodities.

4. Payment method: advance payment.

5. Box type: 20GP, 40GP and 40HQ dry goods boxes.

6. Bookkeeping currency: USD.

7. Freight composition: the basic sea freight charged for each container and the USD surcharge related to the sea freight. Surcharges include fuel surcharges, currency surcharges, peak season surcharges, war surcharges, port congestion surcharges, canal surcharges and other US dollar shipping surcharges charged by case.

Second, collect and publish.

1, sample range: liner voyage with actual departure time from 0: 00 last Monday to 24: 00 last Sunday, Beijing time.

2. Collection time: every Monday from 0: 00 to 13.

3. Release time: every Monday 15:05.

Third, the preparation method

1. Data preprocessing: review of bill of lading information; Eliminate unreasonable prices; Use Laida or Grabs criterion to test and eliminate outliers, and the highest and lowest 10% data are further eliminated from the remaining data; Limit and adjust the excessive share of a single sample liner company.

2. Index calculation step: first, calculate the average freight rate of each route, then calculate the fixed price index of each route, and finally calculate the settlement freight rate index of European and American routes. June10,201is the base period, and the base number is 1000 points.

3. Weight adjustment of containers: The weights of 20-foot containers and 40-foot containers on European and American routes are evaluated and adjusted once a year. The weight adjustment period will avoid the delivery date of index futures trading, and the weight adjustment will be completed in March each year. Compared with 2020, the box types of 202 1 two major European and American routes have not changed.