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What is the Parcel Index?
The Parcel Index is the shipping and trade index that measures the changes within the cost of transporting various commodities, such as retail items, e-commerce goods.
Key
Excellent
A country with an Excellent Parcel Index score above .95 demonstrates exceptional ease of high value trade with many different countries at very competitive prices along outstanding transport-related infrastructure routes.
Good
A country with a Good Parcel Index score above .80 displays above average ease trade with many different countries at competitive prices along great transport-related infrastructure routes.
Fair
A country with a Fair Parcel Index score above .50 exhibits average ease trade with different countries along average transport-related infrastructure.
Poor
A country with a Poor Parcel Index score above .0 either experiences a below average number of trade partners or has issues along the way with its transport-related infrastructure routes.
No Service
A country with a No Service icon is ineligible to export or import through EPISHIP.
Takeaways:
- Brokers contact EPISHIP for pricing schedules tailored to a specific shipping profiles, package type, service selections, ship-from ship-to locations, all attributes.
- Pricing is assigned according to nine subindexes, also referred as profiles. Each has a minimum credit threshold and a weekly premium rate to offset counter party exchange risk, among others.
More about credit pricing → - Pricing is a composite of all broker contracts given the price paid by the 75% percentile for a given subindex with low cost routing the functional test.
- Pricing is a market appropriate incentive at each profile with net rates abstracted into single service-weight-zone type values.
