Maritime & Shipping, Crude Oil, Wet Freight
August 01, 2025
Platts amends dirty tanker, clean tanker basket flat rates for multiple routes Aug 1
Following a Worldscale Association update to routes involving West African and Libyan ports, as well as Turkish Straits transit voyages, Platts, part of S&P Global Commodity Insights, has amended the Worldscale flat rate baskets used in $/mt calculations for 10 of its dirty tanker and two of its clean tanker routes, effective Aug.1, 2025 as follows:
| Assessment Name | Daily Symbol | Monthly Symbol | Current Basket Rate ($/mt) | Updated Basket Rate ($/mt) |
| Dirty Libya-Med 80kt | TDLMA00 | TDLMA03 | 7.20 | 7.34 |
| Dirty WAF-Far East 130kt | TDACM00 | TDACM03 | 35.9 | 36.24 |
| Dirty WAF-Far East 260kt | TDACN00 | TDACN03 | 35.9 | 36.24 |
| Dirty Black Sea-Med 30kt | TDADW00 | TDADW03 | 13.37 | 13.60 |
| Dirty Black Sea-Med 80kt | TDADO00 | TDADO03 | 11.73 | 11.96 |
| Dirty Black Sea-Med 135kt | TDADL00 | TDADL03 | 11.43 | 11.66 |
| Dirty Black Sea-USGC 135kt | TDABS00 | TDABS03 | 28.86 | 29.09 |
| Dirty Black Sea-USAC 135kt | TDABP00 | TDABP03 | 24.29 | 24.52 |
| Dirty Black Sea-Med 140kt | TDAFI00 | TDAFI03 | 8.14 | 8.37 |
| Dirty Baltic-Med 100kt | DBLMA00 | DBLMA03 | 19.82 | 19.90 |
| Clean Black Sea-UK Continent 30kt | TCAAQ00 | TCAAQ03 | 19.29 | 19.52 |
| Clean Black Sea-Mediterranean 30kt | TCAAP00 | TCAAP03 | 8.99 | 9.22 |
The Platts Dirty Tanker TCE flat rates have also been updated as necessary to reflect this amendment.
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