Platts to amend dirty tanker basket flat rates for cross-UKC Aframax and West Africa-Far East VLCC, Suezmax assessments April 1

Following a Worldscale Association update for the Ports of Flotta and Djeno, Platts, part of S&P Global Commodity Insights, will amend the Worldscale flat rate baskets used in the $/mt calculations for its 80,000 mt cross-UK/Continent Aframax and West Africa-Far East 260,000 mt and 130,000 mt dirty tanker assessments, effective April 1.

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

Dirty cross-UK/Continent 80,000 mt: $9.79/mt

Dirty West Africa-Far East 260,000 mt: $35.75/mt

Dirty West Africa-Far East 130,000 mt: $35.75/mt

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

The affected assessments are:

Assessment, Daily Code, Mavg Code

Dirty cross-UK/Continent 80,000 mt: TDACD00, TDACD03

Dirty West Africa-Far East 260,000 mt: TDACN00, TDACN03

Dirty West Africa-Far East 130,000 mt: TDACM00, TDACM03

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

Please send all comments or questions to shipping@spglobal.com and pricegroup@spglobal.com.

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Platts will consider all comments received and will make comments not marked as confidential available upon request.