Platts to amend dirty tanker basket flat rate for UKC-UKC, UKC-Med 80,000 mt assessments April 3

Following a Worldscale Association update for the Port of Sullom Voe, Platts, part of S&P Global Commodity Insights, will amend the Worldscale flat rate basket used in $/mt calculations for its UKC-UKC mt and UKC-Med 80,000 mt dirty tanker assessments, effective April 3, 2023.

With this most recent Worldscale amendment, the new average flat rates for the UKC-UKC and UKC-Med 80,000 mt routes will be:

Dirty UKC-UKC 80kt $9.22/mt

Dirty UKC-Med 80kt $17.95/mt

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

The affected assessments are:

Assessment Daily Code Mavg Code

Dirty UKC-UKC 80kt $/mt TDACD00 TDACD03

Dirty UKC-Med 80kt $/mt TDACB00 TDACB03

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

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