Platts to amend dirty tanker basket flat rate for UKC-Med 30kt assessment from March 1

Following a Worldscale Association update for the port of Grangemouth, Platts, part of S&P Global Commodity Insights, will amend the Worldscale flat rate basket used in the $/mt calculation for its UKC-to-Med 30kt dirty tanker freight assessment, effective March. 1, 2023.

Following this amendment, the new average flat rate for the UKC-Med 30kt route will be $14.94/mt.

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

The affected assessments are:

Assessment Daily Code Mavg Code

Dirty UKC-Med 30kt $/mt TDADV00 TDADV03

The affected assessments appear in Platts Dirty Tankerwire; on Platts Shipping Alert pages 1420, 1421 and Platts Tanker Alert pages 1950, 1951; as well as in the Platts price database under the codes above.

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