World Container Index: September 2025

12 Sep World Container Index: September 2025

The latest Drewry World Container Index (WCI) Index remained stable, decreasing just 1% to US$2104 per 40-foot container this week.

After 11 weeks of decline, Drewry’s World Container Index (WCI) stabilised this week. This stability is the result of opposing trends in different trade lanes. While a significant increase in Transpacific rates pushed the index up, a major drop in Asia-Europe rates counterbalanced this surge, resulting in a steady index overall.

The following trade routes experienced decreases: Shanghai-Rotterdam (-10%), Rotterdam-Shanghai (-1%), Shanghai-Genoa (-7%) and New York-Rotterdam (-1%).

Conversely, the following trade routes experienced increases: Shanghai-Los Angeles (8%), Los Angeles-Shanghai (1%) and Shanghai-New York (12%).

Meanwhile, rates from Rotterdam-New York remained stable.

It is expected that the supply-demand balance will weaken again which will cause spot rates to contract. The volatility and timing of these rate changes will depend on both Trump’s future tariffs and capacity changes related to the introduction of US penalties on Chinese ships.

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