Maritime & Shipping, Wet Freight
July 06, 2026
Platts to amend dirty tanker, clean tanker basket flat rates for Turkish-Strait related routes Aug 3
Following a Worldscale Association update to routes involving Turkish Straits transit voyages, Platts, part of S&P Global Energy, will amend the Worldscale flat rate baskets used in $/mt calculations for seven of its dirty tanker and three of its clean tanker routes, effective Aug. 3, 2026, as follows:
| Assessment Name | Daily Symbol | Monthly Symbol |
Current BasketRate ($/mt) |
Updated BasketRate ($/mt) |
|
Dirty Black Sea-Med 30kt |
TDADW00 | TDADW03 | 13.63 | 13.83 |
|
Dirty Black Sea-Med 80kt |
TDADO00 | TDADO03 | 12.34 | 12.54 |
|
Dirty Black Sea-Med 135kt |
TDADL00 | TDADL03 | 12.03 | 12.23 |
|
Dirty Black Sea-USGC 135kt |
TDADM00 | TDADM03 | 27.95 | 28.15 |
|
Dirty Black Sea-USAC 135kt |
TDADN00 | TDADN03 | 24.04 | 24.24 |
|
Dirty Black Sea-Med 140kt |
TDAFI00 | TDAFI03 | 8.10 | 8.30 |
|
Dirty Baltic-Med 100kt |
DBLMA00 | DBLMA03 | 19.53 | 19.59 |
|
Clean Black Sea-UKC 30kt |
TCAAQ00 | TCAAQ03 | 20.56 | 20.76 |
|
Clean Black Sea-Med 30kt |
TCAAP00 | TCAAP03 | 9.53 | 9.73 |
|
Clean Med-Black Sea 30kt |
TDADM00 | TDADM03 | 8.57 | 8.77 |
The Platts Clean and Dirty Tanker TCE flat rates will also be updated as necessary to reflect this amendment.
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