Maritime & Shipping, Wet Freight

August 03, 2026

Platts amends dirty tanker, clean tanker basket flat rates for Turkish Straits related routes Aug 3

Following a Worldscale Association update to routes involving Turkish Straits transit voyages, Platts, part of S&P Global Energy, has amended 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 Basket

Rate ($/mt)

Updated Basket

Rate ($/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 have also been updated as necessary to reflect this amendment.

The affected assessments appear in Platts Dirty Tankerwire, Platts Dirty Tankerwire Monthly, Platts Clean Tankerwire, Platts Clean Tankerwire Monthly, on Platts Shipping Alert pages: 1520, 1521, 0011, 0010, 1440, 1441, 1430, 1431, 1320, 1321, 0020, 0021, 0013, 0014, on Platts Tanker Alert pages 1954, 1970, 1960, 0044, 0070, 1960, 0023, 1972, as well as in the Platts price database under the codes above.

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