Drewry Shipping Consultants and The Cleartrade Exchange have announced that the World Container Index (WCI), the first Europe-based assessment of container freight rates and index production, is scheduled for launch in September 2011.
The index will provide a new and important facility for the global market to hedge their freight rate risk and see major improvements in forward price discovery through the container derivatives market.
Significantly, the new index will be the first of its kind to report weekly freight rates on backhaul as well as headhaul routes and will provide increased efficiencies in hedging strategies for freight users dealing in bulk, commoditised and recovered cargoes. During July and August the index will be made available to a small number of lead organisations for final testing and feedback prior to launch for trading on 1st September, 2011. Contracts will be available with at least one clearing house at or soon after the launch date and subscriptions to the index will be available from 22nd August, 2011.
Route Assessments
The WCI has also confirmed that it will collect and publish weekly market assessments for the following routes:
Shanghai to Rotterdam; Rotterdam to Shanghai; Shanghai to Genoa; Genoa to Shanghai; Shanghai to Los Angeles; Los Angeles to Shanghai; Shanghai to New York; New York to Rotterdam; Rotterdam to New York; Los Angeles to Rotterdam and Rotterdam to Los Angeles.
Methodology
The WCI assessments are reports of the value of agreed freight rates between major container lines and shippers or freight forwarders. Only freight rates that are agreed between participants and on which cargo is, or is expected to move will form the assessments. Rates for quotes, tariffs, estimates, bids or offers are excluded. Rates are collected from organisations based in Asia, Europe and North America.
The rates reported by the index are spot rates with a validity of seven days to one calendar month from the date the assessment is reported. Agreed freight rates are to be reported in USD per Forty Foot Equivalent Unit (FEU), equivalent to a 40ft-long 8ft 6in-high ISO maritime container as a Full Container Load.
The value of agreed freight rates is defined as the total ocean freight including bunker adjustment factor and all other applicable surcharges, plus terminal handling charges when it is common market practice to include them, but excluding any surcharges related to inland transportation.
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