$ shortage commodity get FRG.FBX > spot: $2,340/FEU > stress_index: 0.57 WATCH > updated 14:30 UTC
BRENT $72.13/b ● TTF €44.25/MWh ● OPEC_ORB n/a SPR_US 331.2 Mb ▼ FAO_FFPI 130.8 ▼
The global container-freight benchmark (40-foot box). Red Sea diversions keep rates elevated and volatile.
Container Freight (FRG.FBX) is a freight commodity tracked by shortage.life with a live spot of $2,340/FEU and a v3.2 stress index of 0.57. Quoted in $/FEU, the price is sourced from primary institutional feeds and refreshed on the cadence documented at /methodology.
The global container-freight benchmark (40-foot box). Red Sea diversions keep rates elevated and volatile. At the latest reading, Container Freight prints a spot of $2,340/FEU — a move of ▼1.10% over the past twenty-four hours and ▲14.60% across the trailing thirty days.
The v3.2 stress index places FRG.FBX at 0.57 — a watch reading on a composite that blends price momentum, inventory cover, supplier concentration and geopolitical exposure. The metric is recomputed on every ingestion cycle, and the weekly delta is the line worth tracking rather than the absolute level.
For operators, the question is not the spot itself but the buffer behind it. A tightening reading on Container Freight compounds with any incident on a shared transit route or producer, and the cascade is rarely linear. The scenarios below carry FRG.FBX as an explicit input — each one is wargamed and reviewed against this commodity's exposure profile.
No active scenario currently carries Container Freight as an explicit input.