Platts proposes amending port basket, renaming India clean tanker assessments

S&P Global Platts is proposing to amend the basket of ports used in the dollar per metric ton calculations for its India-Singapore, India-Japan and India-South Korea Medium Range clean tanker assessments to fully reflect loadings from West Coast India ports and deliveries into South Korean ports.

Platts is also proposing to rename these assessments to West Coast India-Singapore, West Coast India-Japan and West Coast India-South Korea; and its Arab Gulf-India and Red Sea-India assessments to Arab Gulf-West Coast India and Red Sea-West Coast India, respectively, to better reflect the location of the Indian ports currently used on these two routes.

All the proposed changes will be effective from April 1, 2021.

Under the proposed changes, Platts is proposing to amend one of the load ports used in the flat rate calculations for the three India to Southeast Asia/North Asia routes to Mumbai, replacing Visakhapatnam on the east coast, as the west coast is a major oil product export hub.

Over December 2018 to early November 2020, Platts has observed 200 MR clean product shipments moving from Mumbai to Singapore, Japan and South Korea, according to data from the Platts trade flow software cFlow. In comparison, the number of similar shipments from Visakhapatnam to the same countries totaled 104.

Platts is also proposing to add Yeosu to the basket of discharge ports in the India-South Korea route, bringing the number of South Korean discharge ports to three, from two currently, due to the huge volume of naphtha being delivered to major petrochemical complexes in Yeosu.

Following the proposed change to the port basket, the new $/mt calculations will be based on the average of the following routes (http://plts.co/noUA30rkmFm):

1. West Coast India-Singapore

Jamnagar-Singapore

New Mangalore-Singapore

Mumbai-Singapore

2. West Coast India-Japan

Jamnagar-Chiba

New Mangalore-Yokohama

Mumbai-Yokkaichi

3. West Coast India-South Korea

Jamnagar-Ulsan

New Mangalore-Daesan

Mumbai-Yeosu

Currently, the $/mt calculations are based on the average of the following routes:

1. India-Singapore

Jamnagar-Singapore

New Mangalore-Singapore

Visakhapatnam-Singapore

2. India-Japan

Jamnagar-Chiba

New Mangalore-Yokohama

Visakhapatnam-Yokkaichi

3. India-South Korea

Jamnagar-Ulsan

New Mangalore-Daesan

Visakhapatnam-Ulsan

The proposed change in assessment names of the Arab Gulf-India 35kt MR, Arab Gulf-India 55kt LR, and Red Sea-India 35kt MR clean tanker routes to Arab Gulf-West Coast India 35kt MR, Arab Gulf-West Coast India 55kt LR, and Red Sea-West Coast India 35kt MR, would better reflect the location the discharge ports are at, namely: Mumbai, New Mangalore and Jamnagar.

The affected assessments appear in Clean Tankerwire, Monthly Clean Tankerwire, Platts Shipping Alert pages 320, 321, Platts Tanker Alert pages 2920, 2921 and under the price database codes below:

Assessments Code Mavg

Clean India-Japan 35kt MR $/mt TCAEE00 TCAEE03

Clean India-Japan 35kt MR Wsc TCAEF00 TCAEF03

Clean India-Singapore 35kt MR $/mt TCAEC00 TCAEC03

Clean India-Singapore 35kt MR Wsc TCAED00 TCAED03

Clean India-South Korea 35kt MR $/mt TCAEG00 TCAEG03

Clean India-South Korea 35kt MR Wsc TCAEH00 TCAEH03

Clean Arab Gulf-India 35kt MR $/mt TCAAF00 TCAAF03

Clean Arab Gulf-India 35kt MR Wsc PFABM10 PFABM03

Clean Arab Gulf-India 55kt LR $/mt TCAAG00 TCAAG03

Clean Arab Gulf-India 55kt LR Wsc PFAMG00 PFAPZ03

Clean Red Sea-India 35kt MR $/mt TCABI00 TCABI03

Clean Red Sea-India 35kt MR Wsc PFAMC00 PFAQQ03

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