Platts amends dirty tanker basket flat rates for several Med Suezmax, Aframax assessments Dec. 1

Following a Worldscale Association update for the Ceyhan terminal at the port of Botas, Platts, part of S&P Global Commodity Insights, has amended the Worldscale flat rate baskets used in the $/mt calculations for its Mediterranean-Mediterranean 135,000 mt, Mediterranean-UKC 135,000 mt, Mediterranean-USGC 135,000 mt, Mediterranean-East Coast Canada 80,000 mt, Mediterranean-USGC 80,000 mt, Mediterranean-UKC 80,000 mt and Ceyhan-Mediterranean 80,000 mt dirty tanker freight assessments, effective Dec. 1, 2022.

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

Dirty Med-Med 135kt $5.98/mt

Dirty Med-UKC 135kt $10.11/mt

Dirty Med-USGC 135kt $23.36/mt

Dirty Med-E Can 80kt $15.10/mt

Dirty Med-USGC 80kt $23.36/mt

Dirty Med-UKC 80kt $10.11/mt

Dirty Ceyhan-Med 80kt $8.90/mt

Please refer to the Worldscale website for more information on its update.

The affected assessments are:

Assessment Daily Code Mavg Code

Dirty Med-Med 135kt $/mt TDABJ00 TDABJ03

Dirty Med-UKC 135kt $/mt TDABM00 TDABM03

Dirty Med-USGC 135kt $/mt TDABS00 TDABS03

Dirty Med-E Can 80kt $/mt TDABI00 TDABI03

Dirty Med-USGC 80kt $/mt TDABU00 TDABU03

Dirty Med-UKC 80kt $/mt TDABO00 TDABO03

Dirty Ceyhan-Med 80kt $/mt TDABL00 TDABL03

The affected assessments appear in Platts Dirty Tankerwire; on Platts Shipping Alert pages 1440, 1441, 1430, 1431 and Platts Tanker Alert pages 1970,1971, 1960, 1961; as well as in the Platts price database under the codes above.

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