China Shipping & Freight Indexes (SCFI, CCFI) from SSE

Get China's official shipping and freight indexes as clean JSON, straight from the Shanghai Shipping Exchange (上海航运交易所, sse.net.cn), the publisher of the SCFI and CCFI. No login, no Chinese needed: every row has an English name.

18 indexes, about 250 values per run:

Group	Indexes
Container	CCFI (composite + 12 trade lanes), SCFI composite, SCFIS (settlement index, Europe and US West Coast), CICFI (import container), TWFI (Taiwan Strait), SEAFI (Southeast Asia)
Dry bulk	CBFI coastal bulk (composite, coal, grain, ore and oil sub-indexes, 16 coastal routes), CBCFI coal, CBOFI ore, CBGFI grain, CDI coastal daily charter, FDI (Capesize, Panamax and Supramax rates and time charters), CDFI import dry bulk (iron ore, coal, soybeans, nickel ore)
Tanker	CCTFI coastal products tanker, CTFI import crude oil tanker (VLCC routes from the Middle East, West Africa and the US Gulf)
Trade	CSI China import trade shipping index by region and country (about 80 countries), Belt and Road trade and freight indexes
Punctuality	GCSPI global container schedule punctuality

Each value comes with the previous value, the change (in % or points, as published), the release dates and route details such as vessel size, cargo, unit and weight.

Use cases

• Freight and logistics: track container rates out of China and coastal bulk costs week by week.
• Commodities and trading: coal, iron ore, grain and crude freight into China, a leading signal for import demand.
• Research and macro: the CSI import shipping index by country, Belt and Road trade, schedule reliability.
• Dashboards: schedule a weekly run (Friday afternoon China time, after the SCFI release) and send it to Google Sheets or your database.

Example input

Everything:

{}

Container indexes only, and only when there is a new release (for scheduled runs):

{
  "groups": ["container"],
  "skipUnchanged": true
}

Specific indexes: { "indexes": ["scfi", "ccfi", "cdfi"] }

Output

{
  "type": "shippingIndex",
  "indexCode": "ccfi",
  "indexName": "中国出口集装箱运价指数",
  "indexNameEnglish": "China Containerized Freight Index (CCFI)",
  "indexGroup": "Container",
  "item": "中国出口集装箱运价综合指数",
  "itemEnglish": "CCFI composite index",
  "attributes": null,
  "previousDate": "2026-09-30",
  "previousValue": 1923.93,
  "currentDate": "2026-10-09",
  "currentValue": 1912.38,
  "change": -0.6,
  "changeUnit": "%"
}

A crude tanker route:

{
  "indexCode": "ctfi",
  "item": "中东湾拉斯坦努拉—中国宁波(CT1)",
  "itemEnglish": "ME Gulf Ras Tannura to China Ningbo(CT1)",
  "attributes": { "cargoSize": "270000 MT", "vesselType": "VLCC", "unit": "points", "weight": "60%" },
  "currentDate": "2026-10-09",
  "currentValue": 22202.67,
  "change": 494.49
}

• item is the official Chinese name; itemEnglish is the exchange's own English label where it gives one, otherwise our translation.
• changeUnit is % when the exchange publishes a percentage change; otherwise the change is in the index's own unit (points, USD).
• Indexes published for a month (such as GCSPI) carry a month like 2026-09 as their date.

Release schedule

Most indexes are published weekly (the SCFI and CCFI on Fridays); a few, such as GCSPI, are monthly. With Only new releases on, a scheduled run skips (and doesn't charge for) any index whose latest release you already have.

Pricing

$0.001 per index value. A full run (about 250 values) costs about $0.25; the CCFI alone (13 values) about $0.013.

Notes and limits

• Latest release only. The exchange publishes historical values and the SCFI route breakdown to members only, so this Actor returns what is public: the current release of every index. Schedule it weekly to build your own history.
• Official figures as published; this Actor does not calculate or estimate any rates.
• Only public data is collected.

Related

• China CNY Fixing, Shibor & LPR Rates and China Wholesale Food Prices: more official China economic data.

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