Sentence examples for freight index from inspiring English sources

The Cass Freight Index shows strong gains.

The Baltic Freight Index, which tracks dry-bulk freight rates, was at its lowest in nearly a decade in August.

While the GSCI has continued to rise in the last week, the freight index has fallen by a fifth in that period.

The Baltic freight index, a measure of trade flows, has more than doubled within the past year (also see chart).It seems more likely that commodity prices are being driven down by two other factors.

Since then two other London-based brokers, ICAP and Freight Investor Services, have also started to offer derivatives settled against the Shanghai Containerised freight index, which is based on per-box rates on the world's busiest container routes.

A road freight index system is designed based on the current situation of Ningbo road freight transport market for the necessity of setting the freight index in Ningbo.

Shipping firms gained back some lost ground of recent months, as freight indexes have been moving higher of late.

Despite these strengths, each of the five tanker freight indices dropped during 2006.

February's freight transportation services index rises, and business sales and inventories are up.

The deal makes Staples the world's largest direct distributor of office supplies to companies.Freight expectationsThe Baltic Capesize index, which measures the cost of chartering huge ocean-going vessels used to transport iron ore and coal, briefly hit record highs.

The Baltic Dry Index of freight rates is seen as a measure of global trade activity (although it is also affected by the supply of shipping).