{"id":3546,"date":"2025-08-05T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ufreight.com\/?p=3546"},"modified":"2025-08-06T14:51:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T06:51:09","slug":"drewry-composite-world-container-index-stabilising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ufreight.com\/tc\/drewry-composite-world-container-index-stabilising\/","title":{"rendered":"Drewry: Composite World Container Index stabilising"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With U-Freight\u2019s strong presence in the global container shipping arena, we note that Drewry\u2019s composite World Container Index (WCI) declined only one percent last week, and continued to stabilise after a volatile period, which began after US tariffs were announced in April.<br><br>Since the big rush to ship cargo before the US tariff increase is now over, Drewry expects spot rates to remain less volatile in the coming weeks.<br><br>Drewry\u2019s\u00a0Container Forecaster\u00a0expects the supply-demand balance to weaken again in the second half of the year, which will cause spot rates to contract.<br><br>There\u2019s still a lot of uncertainty about the volatility and timing of rate and capacity changes.<br><br>To read the complete article, go to the following website: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drewry.co.uk\/supply-chain-advisors\/world-container-index-weekly-update\/world-container-index-assessed-by-drewry?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=WCI%20Weekly%20Update\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.drewry.co.uk\/supply-chain-advisors\/world-container-index-weekly-update\/world-container-index-assessed-by-drewry\u2028<\/a><br><br>For more information about our ocean freight forwarding and logistics services, please visit the relevant pages of this website, or contact your local office, which can be seen here: <a href=\"https:\/\/ufreight.com\/tc\/locations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/ufreight.com\/locations<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With U-Freight\u2019s strong presence in the global container shipping arena, we note that Drewry\u2019s composite World Container Index (WCI) declined only one percent last week, and continued to stabilise after a volatile period, which began after US tariffs were announced in April. Since the big rush to ship cargo before the US tariff increase is&#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2119,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ufreight.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ufreight.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ufreight.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufreight.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufreight.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ufreight.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3547,"href":"https:\/\/ufreight.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3546\/revisions\/3547"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufreight.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ufreight.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufreight.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufreight.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}