S&P Global clarifies suspended Platts Black Sea dry bulk freight assessments

Due to the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict, S&P Global Commodity Insights is clarifying that it has not published the Platts coal Taman, Russia to Paradip, East Coast India Supramax freight assessment since Feb. 24, 2022, where no relevant, relative data has been immediately available.

The affected assessment is:

DRY BULK FREIGHT: Assessment Name Code

PS31 Coal Taman, Russia to Paradip, East Coast India, 50kt CTCPI00

The implied freight rate is derived from the Platts grains Yuzhny, Ukraine to Cigading, Indonesia (PS28) Supramax TCE assessment (daily price database code: GYUCB00), which has been suspended since Feb. 24: https://www.spglobal.com/commodity-insights/en/pricing-benchmarks/our-methodology/subscriber-notes/022422-platts-to-suspend-publication-of-some-black-sea-dry-bulk-freight-agriculture-assessments

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