Platts to amend dirty tanker basket flat rates for Dirty 80kt cross-UKC, UKC-Med, Sullom Voe-Rotterdam assessments May 1

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 baskets used in the $/mt calculations for its Dirty 80kt cross-UK/Continent, UKC-Mediterranean and Sullom Voe-Rotterdam assessments, effective May 1.

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

Dirty UKC-UKC 80kt: $9.87/mt

Dirty UKC-Med 80kt: $16.66/mt

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

The affected assessments are:

Assessment, Daily Code, Mavg Code

Dirty UKC-UKC 80kt: TDACD00, TDACD03

Dirty UKC-Med 80kt: 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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