Maritime & Shipping, Wet Freight

February 03, 2025

Platts amends dirty tanker, clean tanker basket flat rates for Dardanelles (Canakkale) Straits transit voyages Feb 3

Following a Worldscale Association update to Dardanelles (Canakkale) Straits transit voyages, Platts, part of S&P Global Commodity Insights, has amended the Worldscale flat rate baskets used in $/mt calculations for seven of its dirty tanker and two of its clean tanker routes effective Feb. 3, as follows:

Route Symbols Updated Avg Basket Flat Rate ($/mt)
Dirty Black Sea-Med 140kt TDAFI00,TDAFI03 8.14
Dirty Black Sea-Med 135kt TDADL00,TDADL03 11.43
Dirty Black Sea-USG 135kt TDADM00,TDADM03 28.86
Dirty Black Sea-USAC 135kt TDADN00,TDADN03 24.29
Dirty Baltic-Med 100kt DBLMA00,DBLMA03 19.82
Dirty Black Sea-Med 80kt TDADO00,TDADO03 11.73
Dirty Black Sea-Med 30kt TDADW00,TDADW03 13.37
Clean Black Sea-UK Continent 30kt TCAAQ00, TCAAQ03 19.29
Clean Black Sea-Mediterranean 30kt TCAAP00, TCAAP03 8.99

Platts has also amended the flat rate for the Dirty Tanker Novorossiisk-Trieste Time Charter Equivalent assessments GSTDH00, GSTDH03, GSTDG00, GSTDG03. This change also impacts the Suezmax Index, as the Novorossiisk-Trieste TCE is a component of the index.

Please refer to the Worldscale website for more information on this update.

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