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The big news for ocean shipping freight rates this week is demand out of the oil-producing nations of West Africa, which is pushing up rates for the second-largest category of crude oil tanker.
The rates that tankers can charge has risen, with a fee of $10.5m to transport 700,000b of crude, sold below the price cap, from the Baltic to India in January, compared to a fee a year earlier of $1m. [96] In March VLCC tanker rates were on average 108% higher than March 2022, Suezmax rates were up 56% and Aframax up 40% on 2022. [49]
"Suezmax" is a naval architecture term for the largest ship measurements capable of transiting the Suez Canal in a laden condition, and is almost exclusively used in reference to tankers. The limiting factors are beam , draft , height (because of the Suez Canal Bridge ), and length [ 1 ] (even though the canal has no locks ).
Baltic Dry Index 1985 - 2022. The Baltic Dry Index (BDI) is a shipping freight-cost index issued daily by the London-based Baltic Exchange. The BDI is a composite of the Capesize, Panamax and Supramax timecharter averages. It is reported around the world as a proxy for dry bulk shipping stocks as well as a general shipping market bellwether.
The Baltic Exchange's main sea freight index gained on Thursday as rates rose across all vessel segments. * The Baltic dry index, which tracks rates for capesize, panamax and supramax vessels, was ...
Options trading in the dry market hit an all-time high of 409,255, up 25% on the previous year. The most heavily traded contract was settled against the Baltic Exchange's panamax timecharter assessment (PTC) which saw 1,202,432 lots traded in 2021. Tanker FFA volumes were down 16% on the previous year, reaching 553,535 lots.
Germany is working to secure a drifting Russian oil tanker, believed to be part of Moscow’s “shadow fleet” used to fund its war in Ukraine, after it lost control in the Baltic Sea.. The ...
Frontline PLC is the world's fourth largest oil tanker shipping company, based in Limassol, Cyprus and controlled by John Fredriksen. Its primary business is transporting crude oil. As of 2008 the company had one of the world's largest tanker fleets consisting of VLCC, Suezmax and Suezmax OBO carriers (82 tankers in total with 18 more on order ...