Drewry World Container Index falls for third consecutive week
- Source
- Container News
- Source link
- https://container-news.com/drewry-world-container-index-falls-for-third-consecutive-week/
- Published
- 2026-08-02 09:00:25
- Discovered by ProcIntel
- 2026-08-02 11:24:41
- Category
- Freight, Shipping & Logistics
- Geography
- Global
- Organisations
- —
- Review status
- Pending
- Record type
- REAL
Summary
<a href="https://container-news.com/drewry-world-container-index-falls-for-third-consecutive-week/" title="Drewry World Container Index falls for third consecutive week" rel="nofollow"><img width="300" height="200" src="https://container-news.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/m-ZzOa5G8hSPI-unsplash-2-300x200.jpg" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="Drewry's World Container Index (WCI)" style="float: left; margin-right: 5px;" link_thumbnail="1" decoding="async" srcset="https://container-news.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/m-ZzOa5G8hSPI-unsplash-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https://container-news.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/m-ZzOa5G8hSPI-unsplash-2-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https://container-news.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/m-ZzOa5G8hSPI-unsplash-2-150x100.jpg 150w, https://container-news.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/m-ZzOa5G8hSPI-unsplash-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https://container-news.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/m-ZzOa5G8hSPI-unsplash-2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://container-news.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/m-ZzOa5G8hSPI-unsplash-2-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://container-news.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/m-ZzOa5G8hSPI-unsplash-2-630x420.jpg 630w, https://container-news.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/m-ZzOa5G8hSPI-unsplash-2-696x464.jpg 696w, https://container-news.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/m-ZzOa5G8hSPI-unsplash-2-1068x712.jpg 1068w, https://container-news.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/m-ZzOa5G8hSPI-unsplash-2-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://container-news.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/m-ZzOa5G8hSPI-unsplash-2-240x160.jpg 240w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></a><p>The Drewry World Container Index (WCI) declined for the third consecutive week, falling 3% to US$4,255 per 40-foot container. The decline was driven by lower spot rates on the Asia-Europe and Transpacific trade lanes. On the Shanghai–Los Angeles route, rates fell 2% to US$5,739 per FEU. Meanwhile, rates from Shanghai to New York remained unchanged […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://container-news.com/drewry-world-container-index-falls-for-third-consecutive-week/">Drewry World Container Index falls for third consecutive week</a> appeared first on <a href="https://container-news.com">Container News</a>.</p>
Procurement Relevance Gate
- logistics_freight_transport (weight 12) — matched on "container"
- geographic_exposure (weight 8) — matched on "1 linked geography"
Initial Signal Assessment ProcIntel's automatic, provisional read of this individual Signal -- Initial Significance and Initial Confidence, computed deterministically before any Event extraction or human review.
A provisional, automatically-computed reading of this individual Signal, before Event extraction or human review. Not a final rating.
- Initial Significance
- 1 · Low (18.0/100)
- Initial Confidence
- 2 · Low (31.5/100)
- Data sufficiency Whether enough structured evidence exists to trust this Signal's Initial Confidence reading. 'Sufficient' has no cap; 'Partial' and 'Insufficient' cap Confidence until more evidence is available; 'Not Assessed' means the Signal did not pass the Relevance Gate.
- Partial
- Strongest contributor
- Procurement Impact
- Limiting factor
- Likely Event Severity
Initial Significance Low (18.0/100). Strongest contributor: Procurement Impact (6.0/30 points). Limiting factor: Likely Event Severity (3.0/30 points). Initial Confidence Low (31.5/100, data sufficiency: Partial). Strongest contributor: Source Authority (20.0/40 points). Limiting factor: Corroboration (2.5/25 points).
- No likely Event type matched; a low contextual baseline was applied.
- No eligible (non-geographic, non-fictional) entities were linked to this Signal.
- no matched Event type
- no actor entities (only attribution/metadata, if any)
- no actor content-derived geography
- single source only
- Entities were mentioned as context or document attribution rather than as actors in the reported development, so they did not increase Initial Confidence.
- Geographies were mentioned only in diplomatic reaction, commentary or background context rather than as the actor, event location or affected party in the reported development, so they did not increase Initial Confidence.
- Only source-level geography metadata was available.
- Source metadata did not contribute to Initial Confidence.
Methodology signal_scoring_v1 — calculated 2026-08-03 16:30:12.