Euronext Container Freight Futures

Container Freight Cash-Settled Futures contracts in Europe, settled to the Xeneta Shipping Index by Compass (XSI®-C).

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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"Whether you are shippers, NVOCCs, freight forwarders, ocean carriers, shipowners, brokers, or institutional investors, 
this inclusive design concentrates liquidity in a single, transparent marketplace and supports dynamic two-way trading."

 

Key features 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

Hedge freight rates, navigate the future.

  • Far East Asia to Northern Europe - FENE
  • Far East Asia to US West Coast - FEUW
  • Northern Europe to Far East Asia - NEFE
  • Northern Europe to US East Coast - NEUE 
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Key advantages

Competitive advantage

Adopt early to stabilise your pricing models and strengthen your negotiation leverage with supply chain partners.

Budget stability

Achieve more predictable logistics costs and revenues to support accurate financial planning and protect your margins.

Price transparency

Gain visibility in a traditionally opaque market with continuous trading and daily index pricing published via Xeneta and Compass XSI®-C indices.

Volatility protection

Adopt early to stabilise your pricing models and strengthen your negotiation leverage with supply chain partners.

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, 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.

Container Freight Futures Education
Managing freight volatility: a practical guide to Euronext Container Freight Futures

An introduction to Euronext Container Freight Futures

How boards can manage freight rate risk: a practical guide to container freight hedging

Five proven strategies for freight rate risk management: the CFF hedging playbook

Webinar - How to trade Euronext Container Freight Futures

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Xeneta

Xeneta provides shippers with trusted market data, real-time benchmarks, and tools for effective freight risk management. Euronext’s Ocean Container Freight Futures (CFF) are based on the Xeneta Shipping Index – Compass (XSI-C), ensuring transparent and accurate pricing. Explore the links below to learn more about Xeneta’s solutions.

Xeneta Shipping Index by Compass (XSI®-C)

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