Container freight rates

• 20 Nov: ILWU Local 26 strike deadline at Los Angeles and Long Beach (Freightos).
• 10 Jan: end of the US–China pause on port call fees (Freightos).

• FBX global index ended the week at 3,497, down 17 points from 3,514 at the end of the previous week (Baltic Exchange, as of 6 Nov 2026).
• Asia to US West Coast (FBX01) rose by $176 in the week to $8,518/FEU (Baltic Exchange, as of 6 Nov 2026).
• Asia to North Europe (FBX11) fell by $211 in the week to $3,384/FEU (Baltic Exchange, as of 6 Nov 2026).
• Freightos' weekly update gave $8,200/FEU to the US West Coast, $9,700/FEU to the US East Coast, $3,400/FEU to North Europe and $4,300/FEU to the Mediterranean (Freightos, as of 10 Nov 2026).
• Freightos says "Carriers seem to have abandoned November 1st GRI hopes for Asia – Europe lanes as well." A GRI is a general rate increase that carriers announce for a set date (Freightos, as of 10 Nov 2026).
• "The ILWU Local 26 watchmen union has extended its strike deadline to November 20th." This affects the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach (Freightos, as of 10 Nov 2026).
• The US and China extended their pause on port call fees for each other's ships to 10 January (Freightos, as of 10 Nov 2026).

Added from the tracker list. Spot rates for a 40ft container are the starting point for most ocean quotes a forwarder gives. Weekly moves on the main lanes from China to the US West Coast and to North Europe show whether carrier rate increases are sticking and how much quotes need to change.