Container shipping: would a freight exchange drive rate volatility out of the system?

23/05/2016

Each week the Shanghai Containerised Freight Index (SCFI), along with other index providers and rate benchmarking platforms, provides market participants with rate transparency covering both spot and contracted rates in the ocean container freight market.

The SCFI is well established and is regularly quoted in the ...

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