# Drewry World Container Index (WCI) Composite Spot Freight Rate

> Drewry World Container Index (WCI) Composite Spot Freight Rate is a paid API for AI agents from api.tradeenergy-api.workers.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.002/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-29).

Returns the Drewry WCI composite spot rate per 40ft container in USD, along with the weekly date and directional change, scraped from Drewry's public WCI page.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.tradeenergy-api.workers.dev/api/logistics/spot-freight-rates?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.002/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-29
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/drewry-world-container-index-wci-composite-spot-freight-rate-9e4eed90
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_ZiL5COYGUv4_LmyZL7V-7

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability drewry-world-container-index-wci-composite-spot-freight-rate-9e4eed90
```

Example prompt: What's the latest Drewry World Container Index composite spot rate for a 40ft container, and did it go up or down from last week?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need the globally recognised Drewry WCI composite benchmark for 40ft container spot rates, especially for weekly freight cost monitoring, procurement benchmarking, or supply chain reporting. Prefer this over generic freight APIs when you specifically need the WCI composite figure with its week-over-week movement language. Not suitable if you need individual trade route rates (Shanghai-Rotterdam, Shanghai-LA) or non-composite indices.

## Known failure modes

- Drewry's public WCI page is unavailable or has changed structure, causing scraping to fail
- Stale data if Drewry hasn't updated their page yet for the current week
- Rate-limiting or blocking from Drewry's website during high-frequency polling
- No route-level breakdown returned — composite only, Shanghai-Rotterdam and Shanghai-LA not available

## How this service works

Drewry World Container Index (WCI) composite spot rate per 40ft container (USD), its weekly date and change, read from Drewry's public WCI page. Composite only: the route-level Shanghai-Rotterdam and Shanghai-Los Angeles values are not extracted.

## Output

A JSON object containing: the weekly date the rate applies to, the composite spot rate in USD per 40ft container, a human-readable description of the week-over-week movement (e.g. 'increased 2% to'), the source URL (Drewry's WCI page), and the timestamp when the data was last checked.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "required": {
   "type": "string"
  },
  "properties": {
   "type": "string"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "date": "2026-10-22",
  "source": "https://www.drewry.co.uk/supply-chain-advisors/supply-chain-expertise/world-container-index-assessed-by-drewry",
  "movement": "increased 2% to",
  "checkedAt": "2026-10-23T09:37:56.340Z",
  "compositeUsdPer40ft": 4585
 }
}
```

## More

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