Euronext Container Freight Futures

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

Route-Specific Contracts 
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 

Market Transparency 
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. 

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

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

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

Index-Linked Pricing 
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. 

Euronext Container Freight Futures provide an effective solution to face volatile ocean freight rates, while empowering the shipping industry with the same tools used in commodities and finance.

With prices based on the Xeneta Shipping Index by Compass (XSI^®-C) daily freight rate benchmark, Euronext Container Freight Futures bring predictability, transparency, and opportunity to freight pricing. 

Listed on Euronext Amsterdam, Euronext Container Freight Futures are USD cash-settled contracts designed for shippers, freight forwarders, NVOCCs, ocean carriers, logistics procurement teams, as well as investors and traders. This inclusive design concentrates liquidity in a single, transparent marketplace and supports dynamic two-way trading.

The contracts enable to hedge container freight rate risk, secure logistics costs, or take positions on freight rate movements with daily price transparency and central clearing.