container index

There's no shortage of indexes telling you how much it costs to ship a container load from A to B. Unfortunately, each one gives you a different answer. The disparity between the different indexes grew even more extreme on Wednesday, after a calculation change by the Freightos Baltic Daily Index (...

A shipper with a high volume of cargo to move by sea over time will negotiate a service contract with an ocean carrier, generally on an annual basis (the norm in the trans-Pacific market) or quarterly. Buying shipping services in bulk is designed to offer the shipper a lower per-slot cost through a...