China: global export container freight rate index 2022

Costs of shipping freight from China increased significantly between January 2019 and November 2022. While in January 2019, the index amounted to about 880 points, in November 2022, the index reached the value of some 1,560 points.

Chinese global export container freight rate index from January 2019 to November 2022

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Release date

December 2022

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Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

January 2019 to November 2022

Supplementary notes

January 1, 1998 has been set as the basic period with the basic index of 1,000 points.
The index is based on the freight rate and shipped volume of 12 main routes, reflecting the weekly changes in freight rate and the actual conditions of shipping jam. Departing ports include ports of Dalian, Tianjin, Qingdao, Shanghai, Nanjing, Ningbo, Xiamen, Fuzhou, Shenzhen, and Guangzhou.

The graph shows values for the last Friday of each month.

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