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Shanghai Containerised Freight Index (SCFI, or CCFI - China/Chinese Containerized Freight Index), a type of economic transport shipping index. See Container Freight Swap Agreement Secretaría de Comercio y Fomento Industrial [English: Secretariat of Commerce and Industrial Development], the former name for the Department of Economy in Mexico ...
CCFI may refer to: . China Containerized Freight Index (also known as Chinese Containerized Freight Index or Shanghai Containerised Freight Index), a type of economic transport shipping index.
Container Freight Swap Agreements are a financial futures contract that allow for hedging and speculating against the volatility of seaborne, intermodal container box-rates. [ 1 ] A container freight swaps most commonly takes the form of a cash-settled agreement between two parties with an equal and opposite opinion of the future of the market.
Guangdong-based factory owner and bicycle maker Derrick Tian finally secured a container at the end of September for a new shipment of bikes leaving Yantian Port in southern China, after weeks of ...
This event marked the beginning of containerized shipping in China, leading to the creation of the first container berth in 1980. During the 1990s, the industry experienced rapid growth, with China surpassing the United States in 2002 to become the world's largest handler of containers.
Year-average daily charter rates for a 1-TEU (14-tonne) slot have varied from $2.70 to $35.40 between 2000 and 2010. UNCTAD also tracks container freight rates. Freight rates are expressed as the total price in U.S. dollars for a shipper to transport one TEU worth of cargo along a given route. [60]
A freight rate (historically and in ship chartering simply freight [1]) is a price at which a certain cargo is delivered from one point to another. The price depends on the form of the cargo, the mode of transport ( truck , ship , train , aircraft ), the weight of the cargo, and the distance to the delivery destination.
Shanghai Shipping Freight Exchange is the first electronic shipping freight exchange in the world. It has three lines of businesses, including International Dry Bulk, Domestic Coastal Coal, and International Container. The container freight derivatives were launched in 2011 and shortly became the most liquid container freight contracts.