Platts to amend dirty tanker basket flat rates for Dirty UKC-Med Handysize assessment 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 baskets used in the $/mt calculations for its UKC-Med 30kt dirty tanker assessments, effective March 1.

Following this amendment, the new average flat rates for the following assessments will be:

UKC-Med 30kt: $13.84/mt

Please refer to the Worldscale website for more information on these updates.

The affected assessments are:

Assessment Daily Code, Mavg Code

UKC-Med 30kt: TDADW00, TDADW03

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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