Platts amends dirty tanker basket rates for Persian Gulf-Red Sea 80,000 mt assessments

Following a Worldscale Association update for the Marine Terminal Assistance Fees at Jeddah port, Platts, part of S&P Global Commodity Insights, has amended the Worldscale flat rate baskets used in the $/mt calculations for its Persian Gulf-Red Sea 80,000 mt assessment from March 1.

Following this amendment, the new average basket rate for the following assessment is $13.67/mt.

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

The affected assessments are:

The affected assessments appear in Platts Dirty Tankerwire; on Platts Shipping Alert pages 1440, 1441, 1430, 1431 and Platts Tanker Alert pages 1970,1971, 1960, 1961; as well as in the Platts price database under the codes above.

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