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Maritime & Shipping, Crude Oil, Wet Freight
September 29, 2025
Following a Worldscale Association update to routes involving Santos, Platts, part of S&P Global Commodity Insights, will amend the Worldscale flat rate baskets used in $/mt calculations for two of its clean tanker routes and one dirty tanker route, effective Oct. 1, 2025.
The affected assessments are as follows:
| Assessment | Daily | Monthly | Updated Basket Rate ($/mt) |
| Dirty Brazil-UKC 130kt $/mt | ABRKA00 | ABRKA03 | 21.16 |
| Clean US Gulf Coast-Brazil 38kt | TCAFR00 | TCAFR03 | 21.76 |
| Clean USGC-Brazil 60kt $/mt | TCBRA00 | TCBRA03 | 21.46 |
Please refer to the Worldscale website for more information on its update.
Please send all comments or questions to shipping@spglobal.com and pricegroup@spglobal.com.
For written comments, please provide a clear indication if comments are not intended for publication by Platts for public viewing. Platts will consider all comments received and will make comments not marked as confidential available upon request.