What Is the Daily Shanghai Container Freight Index?

DSCFI is a daily and forward-looking container freight index developed by TRANTOR Data. It uses market quotations from digital freight forwarders to give shipping professionals higher-frequency freight-rate signals closer to the end market.

Containerized Freight Index (Europe Service) futures were listed for trading on August 18, 2023, according to the Shanghai International Energy Exchange. Meanwhile, the market has been paying close attention to the EC high-frequency price signal tracking channel. SCFI reflects fluctuations in spot freight rates for Shanghai's export container market, as defined by the Shanghai Shipping Exchange Institute. However, the global shipping market is changing rapidly under the influence of geography, carbon finance and various economic cycle factors, and the global supply chain is facing lots of uncertainties in the medium and long term. Therefore, the market's desire for higher frequency and longer months price signals is becoming more obvious. In order to better serve the market demand, TRANTOR Data launched the "DSCFI" index to improve the accuracy and depth of EC research for the whole market.

Rate Foresight

More forward-looking price capture, providing a priori leading indicators for the market.

At present, DSCFI provides not a single price, but a series of price data covering the next 1 to 6 weeks, which is richer in information than the existing price data.

Daily Announcement

The daily frequency announcement. The announcement of the daily frequency not only

satisfies the existing market investors' capture of the higher frequency of price signals, but also provides a broader perspective for the market to observe the fluctuations of supply and demand of transportation capacity from the change of forward quotation.

Rate Close to End User

Price data sources are closer to the end. Compared with the existing index futures,

DSCFI adopts the price data of midstream freight forwarders as samples for weighted design, and the price fluctuation is closer to the middle and downstream, which fully captures various feedback signals based on the demand fluctuation of the terminal market, and provides an effective supplement for the bottom-up observation of changes in the consolidated transportation market.

Data from Digital FF.

The reliability of sample sources. DSCFI mainly selects freight forwarding enterprises with

digital freight rate management capabilities. These enterprises have excellent qualifications, advanced management, stable price data sources and strong representativeness.

Safety and Compliance

Algorithms have intellectual property protection such as patents to ensure data

source security and compliance.

Expert Recognition

The algorithm has been recognized by many experts in the shipping industry and is

advanced and reliable.

Daily Shanghai Container Freight Index

Research and Consulting Services of Container Logistics

Container Tracking and Analysis

What Is the Daily Shanghai Container Freight Index?

DSCFI Empowering Businesses with Data Insights

Rate Foresight

Daily Announcement

Rate Close to End User

Data from Digital FF.

Safety and Compliance

Expert Recognition

Key Capabilities and Functionalities

DSCFI Candle Line

Ocean Liner Route

Ocean Liner Schedule

Instant Rate

History Rate

Container Tracking