Platts to amend dirty tanker basket flat rates for West African VLCC, Suezmax assessments Oct. 2

Following a Worldscale Association update for the Port of Djeno, Platts, part of S&P Global Commodity Insights, will amend the Worldscale flat rate baskets used in the $/mt calculations for its West Africa-Far East 260,000 mt and West Africa-Far East 130,000 mt dirty tanker assessments, effective Oct. 2.

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

Dirty West Africa-Far East 260kt: $39.44/mt

Dirty West Africa-Far East 130kt: $39.44/mt

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

The affected assessments are:

Assessment Daily Code Mavg Code

West Africa to Far East 260kt TDACN00 TDACN03

West Africa to Far East 130kt TDACM00 TDACM03

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

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