Platts amends Worldscale basket rate for Australia to North Asia dirty tanker route from Feb 3

Following the Worldscale Association's updates to Australia's Dampier port on Jan. 10 and Jan. 13, S&P Global Platts has amended the Worldscale flat rate basket used in $/mt calculations for the Australia to North Asia 80kt dirty tanker assessment, effective Feb. 3, 2022.

The new average flat rate for the Australia to North Asia voyage is $13.59/mt.

An updated subscriber note announcing this change was published on Jan. 25: https://www.spglobal.com/platts/en/our-methodology/subscriber-notes/012522-platts-to-amend-worldscale-basket-rate-for-australia-to-north-asia-dirty-tanker-route-from-feb-3.

Please refer to the Worldscale website for more information.

The affected assessment is:

Clean tanker rates are not affected.

The affected assessment appears in Platts Dirty Tankerwire; on Platts Shipping Alert pages 430, 431, and Platts Tanker Alert pages 2970, 2971; as well as in the Platts price database under the code above.

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