Manage your ocean freight price risk with Euronext Container Freight Futures.
Euronext Container Freight Futures provide an effective solution to face volatile ocean freight rates. 

Manage volatile ocean freight rates with confidence using Euronext Container Freight Futures, leveraging the same tools trusted in commodity and financial markets. Settled against the Xeneta Shipping Index by Compass (XSI®-C), Euronext Futures bring predictability, transparency, and actionable opportunities to your freight pricing, helping you navigate geopolitical uncertainty, capacity swings, and shifting demand with greater control.

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All trades are centrally cleared by Euronext Clearing (CCP), eliminating counterparty risk and ensuring market stability through margining and robust risk controls.

Futures are listed with 18 consecutive expiries. This allows for short-term hedging of seasonal price spikes or longer-term exposure management.

Prices are based on the Xeneta’s trusted XSI^®-C index, a neutral, independent benchmark of real market container freight rates sourced from a global data pool. 

Contracts are cash-settled in USD, eliminating the need to move containers or manage physical delivery.

Continous trading on a central order book that reflects real-time freight rate movements. Establishing the first forward curve for container shipping, enhancing price discovery and planning. 

Hedge exposure with precision using contracts tailored to four major trade lanes for Forty-Foot Equivalent Unit (FEU) containers across Asia–Europe, Transatlantic, and Trans-Pacific routes: 

• Far East Asia to Northern Europe 
• Far East Asia to US West Coast 
• Northern Europe to Far East Asia
• Northern Europe to US East Coast