Containerized Freight Index decreased 874.22 Points or 35.53% since the beginning of 2025, according to trading on a contract for difference (CFD) that tracks the benchmark market for this commodity. This dataset includes a chart with historical data for Containerized Freight Index.

Container freight rates oscillated dramatically between January 2023 and November 2024. Freight rates slumped to their lowest level on the 26th of October 2023, when the going rate for a 40-foot container was only ***** U.S. dollars. Since then, the global freight rate has significantly increased, hitting over ***** U.S. dollars in July 2024, the highest value on record. As of November 28th 2024, freight rates decreased to ***** U.S. dollars per 40ft container. How did we get here? The global supply chain is a fragile system consisting of numerous links. Disruption to one can send cascading effects down a chain that needs to function properly for the whole system to work. The COVID-19 pandemic turned out to be an event of such a magnitude to either bring to halt whole industries and supply chains, or severely reduce their efficiency. Due to its complexity and transcontinental nature, container shipping was hit especially hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. Since the start of the pandemic, the shipping industry has had to struggle with port closures and congestions, labor shortages, difficulties with capacity utilization, as well as a lack of new shipping containers. In more recent months, the impact of the conflict in the Middle-East between Israel and numerous Islamic nations has had a significant effect on oil exports in the region, further exacerbating an industry in desperate need of recovery. Container carriers profiting While costs of operating a container fleet have increased, the surge in freight rates has not served just to cover rising expenses. Container ship operators had been reporting record-high operating profit margins since the beginning of the pandemic. However, despite these high profit margins, the freight rate increase has had some repercussions. In the second quarter of 2023, main container shipping companies had an average profit margin of *** percent, a decrease of almost ** percent compared to the peak EBIT in the first quarter of 2022. Despite this decrease, some of the carriers are combating this trend by using their previous profits to increase their carrying capacity by buying new containers and ordering new container ships. However, the delivery of these newly ordered ships is still years away.

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United States - Producer Price Index by Industry: General Freight Trucking, Local: Primary Services was 179.55600 Index Jun 1993=100 in May of 2025, according to the United States Federal Reserve. Historically, United States - Producer Price Index by Industry: General Freight Trucking, Local: Primary Services reached a record high of 214.99700 in July of 2022 and a record low of 99.90000 in September of 1993. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for United States - Producer Price Index by Industry: General Freight Trucking, Local: Primary Services - last updated from the United States Federal Reserve on June of 2025.

United States - Inbound Price Index (International Services): Air Freight was 182.70000 Index 2000=100 in May of 2025, according to the United States Federal Reserve. Historically, United States - Inbound Price Index (International Services): Air Freight reached a record high of 296.20000 in January of 2022 and a record low of 92.70000 in September of 1998. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for United States - Inbound Price Index (International Services): Air Freight - last updated from the United States Federal Reserve on June of 2025.

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Container freight rates from Shanghai to Los Angeles oscillated dramatically between January 2023 and May 2024. On the 30th May 2024, freight rates between the two cities reached its peak at over 5,300 U.S dollars. This constitutes a significant increase compared to just 6 months prior, when freight rates reached an all-time low of just over 1,600 U.S dollars on June 22nd 2023.

United States Freight Rate per 40ft Container from Shanghai to Los Angeles data was reported at 3,002.000 USD in Mar 2025. This records a decrease from the previous number of 4,317.000 USD for Feb 2025. United States Freight Rate per 40ft Container from Shanghai to Los Angeles data is updated monthly, averaging 4,320.500 USD from Feb 2020 (Median) to Mar 2025, with 62 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 11,730.000 USD in Aug 2021 and a record low of 1,730.000 USD in Feb 2020. United States Freight Rate per 40ft Container from Shanghai to Los Angeles data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Bureau of Transportation Statistics. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.P035: Freight Rate per 40 Foot Container.

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United States - Freight Transportation Services Index was 136.30000 Chain-type Index 2000=100 in April of 2025, according to the United States Federal Reserve. Historically, United States - Freight Transportation Services Index reached a record high of 140.60000 in August of 2019 and a record low of 94.90000 in April of 2009. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for United States - Freight Transportation Services Index - last updated from the United States Federal Reserve on July of 2025.

United States - Producer Price Index by Industry: Deep Sea Freight Transportation: Deep Sea Freight Transportation Services was 380.69300 Index Jun 1988=100 in May of 2025, according to the United States Federal Reserve. Historically, United States - Producer Price Index by Industry: Deep Sea Freight Transportation: Deep Sea Freight Transportation Services reached a record high of 478.26300 in September of 2022 and a record low of 100.00000 in June of 1988. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for United States - Producer Price Index by Industry: Deep Sea Freight Transportation: Deep Sea Freight Transportation Services - last updated from the United States Federal Reserve on June of 2025.

Container freight rates from Shanghai to Rotterdam oscillated dramatically between January 2023 and February 2025. On the 6th February 2025, freight rates between the two cities lessened slightly to around 3,100 U.S dollars. This constitutes a decrease compared to just 6 months prior, when freight rates reached an all-time low of just over 8,000 U.S dollars on 1st August 2024.

In December 2021, airfreight rates between Hong Kong and North America were at an all-time high of ***** U.S. dollars per kilogram since the coronavirus pandemic started. As the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak spreads across the globe, many more countries restrict the transportation of goods across borders or ban it, thus, affecting the international airfreight rates as well.

United States - Producer Price Index by Industry: Deep Sea Freight Transportation: Primary Services was 380.69300 Index Jun 1988=100 in May of 2025, according to the United States Federal Reserve. Historically, United States - Producer Price Index by Industry: Deep Sea Freight Transportation: Primary Services reached a record high of 478.26300 in September of 2022 and a record low of 100.00000 in June of 1988. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for United States - Producer Price Index by Industry: Deep Sea Freight Transportation: Primary Services - last updated from the United States Federal Reserve on June of 2025.

United States - Producer Price Index by Commodity: Transportation Services: Deep Sea Water Transportation of Freight was 143.56700 Index Dec 2008=100 in May of 2025, according to the United States Federal Reserve. Historically, United States - Producer Price Index by Commodity: Transportation Services: Deep Sea Water Transportation of Freight reached a record high of 180.36300 in September of 2022 and a record low of 80.80000 in May of 2009. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for United States - Producer Price Index by Commodity: Transportation Services: Deep Sea Water Transportation of Freight - last updated from the United States Federal Reserve on June of 2025.

Freight Rail Services Price Index (FRSPI). Monthly data are available from January 2018. The current base period for the index is 2018=100.

United States - Inbound Price Index (International Services): Air Freight for Asia was 165.90000 Index 2000=100 in May of 2025, according to the United States Federal Reserve. Historically, United States - Inbound Price Index (International Services): Air Freight for Asia reached a record high of 312.20000 in January of 2022 and a record low of 84.20000 in September of 1998. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for United States - Inbound Price Index (International Services): Air Freight for Asia - last updated from the United States Federal Reserve on June of 2025.

Between July 2021 and August 2022, general freight rate costs increased from a four-month moving average of ***** to ***** Canadian dollars. Since then, general freight rates have generally decreased, with the October 2024 average being around ** percent lower than in August 2022.