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Freight rate. 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.
Containerization, also referred as container stuffing or container loading, is the process of unitization of cargoes in exports. Containerization is the predominant form of unitization of export cargoes, as opposed to other systems such as the barge system or palletization. [ 2] The containers have standardized dimensions.
SCFI may refer to: 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 ...
The Freightos Baltic Index ( FBX) (also sometimes known as the Freightos Baltic Daily Index [1] or Freightos Baltic Global Container Index [2]) is a daily freight container index issued by the Baltic Exchange [3] and Freightos. The index measures global container freight rates [4] by calculating spot rates for 40-foot containers on 12 global ...
Shipping markets. The international shipping industry can be divided into four closely related shipping markets, each trading in a different commodity: the freight market, the sale and purchase market, the newbuilding market and the demolition market. These four markets are linked by cash flow and push the market traders in the direction they want.
A forward freight agreement ( FFA) is a financial forward contract that allows ship owners, charterers and speculators to hedge against the volatility of freight rates. It gives the contract owner the right to buy and sell the price of freight for future dates. FFAs are built on an index composed of a shipping route for tanker or a basket of ...
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. See Container Freight Swap Agreement. Chambre de Commerce France-Israel (English: France-Israel Chamber of Commerce), see Paris Île-de-France Regional ...
Freightos. Freightos operates a booking and payments platform for international freight, [1] using a SaaS-Enabled Marketplace model. [2] It also provides rate management and quoting software for freight forwarders and carriers through WebCargo, a subsidiary acquired in 2016 [3] [4] The freightos.com online freight marketplace, which as first ...