To completely reflect the international container shipping market fluctuations in Northern China, strengthen market representation of Tianjin Container Freight Index (TCI), serve shipping and trade company better, according to the compiling and revising design of Tianjin Shipping Index and the feedback of market research, Membership Committee of Tianjin Shipping Index after pricing collecting, calculating and evaluating
formally releases freight indices and market reference prices of TCI Tianjin- East African base port (Dares Salaam, Mombasa) and Tianjin- West African base port (Lagos, Tincan, Apapa) from January 2, 2019.
At the same time, in order to more accurately and comprehensively reflect the trend of the Tianjin-Southeast Coastal and East China Coastal Domestic Trade container market, after research and evaluation, starting from January 2, 2019, the freight rates of the Tianjin-Xiamen Port route and the Tianjin-Ningbo Port route were incorporated into freight collection range of the TDI Tianjin-Quanzhou, Tianjin-Shanghai route. The corresponding route names were adjusted to: Tianjin-Quanzhou /Xiamen round-trip route and Tianjin-Shanghai/Ningbo round-trip route.
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Tianjin International Trade and Shipping Service Center
Membership Committee of Tianjin Shipping Index
December 26, 2019