South Korean ship finance institution Korea Ocean Business Corporation (KOBC) is piloting a container freight index to provide a guideline on the costs of moving goods from Busan, the country’s main container port.
Planning for the KOBC Container Composite Index (KCCI) began back in July 2020, when freight rates began ascending rapidly because of Covid-19-related logistical bottlenecks.
KOBC said: “As a result of analysing data accumulated for more than a year, meaningful …

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