The index rose 8.4% since dropping to 125.7 in April at the start of the pandemic.
Annually, from December 2019 to December 2020 the index fell 0.1% compared to a decline of 0.6% from December 2018 to December 2019 and a rise of 2.9% from December 2017 to December 2018 (Tables 1, 2, and 2A).
In the fourth quarter of 2020, the freight TSI rose 3.3%, the second consecutive quarterly increase and the largest quarterly rise since the fourth quarter of 2017