TANKERS: Texas freeze boosts USGC Aframax freight rates to nine-month highs
Author Nicole Baquerizo Catherine Wood
- EditorRichard Rubin
- CommodityOil, Metals, Shipping
Aframax trans-Atlantic freight spiked over 38% from Feb. 17
Yantian Port has experienced extreme congestion, disrupting multiple vessel services (File image courtesy Gigel Atat)
The containerized shipping industry has been essential to global commerce for its low shipping costs. However, high freight rates are starting to have an impact on consumer goods. Already, consumers have started to feel the pinch of the surge on items such as furniture and coffee. Along the transpacific route, Alan Murphy, CEO of Sea-Intelligence recently estimated that freight rates for assembled furniture now account for a whopping 62 percent of the total retail value. It’s the same case for large appliances, for which up to 41 percent of the retail price is the shipping. As container
Las tarifas de fletamento de naves graneleras para la ruta Costa Oeste de Sudamérica (Callao) - Lejano Oriente (Fig. A) notificadas durante la semana 10 de 2021 se situaron en los US$29.000 para los buques Handysize, representando un 126% de la tarifa de referencia del Baltic Dry index (BHSI) y marcando un alza de US$5.000, sobre la semana anterior. Para los buques Supramax la tarifa alcanzó los US$34.000, equivalente a un 149% del BSI, registrando un alza de US$4.000, sobre la semana anterior. En tanto, las tarifas para los buques Ultramax, marcaron US$31.000, posicionándose un 153%, respecto al índice de
UK-headquartered maritime information provider Baltic Exchange has lauched new indices for LNG-powered seaborne gas assessments
The Baltic Exchange’s new set of independent indices for LNG-powered vessels went live on 2 March, based on the number of carriers burning LNG, rather than marine fuel oil or marine gas oil, as their primary fuel.
Published twice weekly, the new indices have been given the acronym (BLNGg) and will be published alongside the current LNG indices which are based on LNG carriers burning very low sulphur fuel oil.
According to a Baltic Exchange statement on the launch of the new LNG-powered vessel indices, "Since the introduction of the 2020 global sulphur cap by the International Maritime
Despite low freight rates, very few crude oil tankers have been sent for demolition so far this year. In a new analysis of market trends, BIMCO reports that it expects shipowners will continue to seek opportunities in the secondhand market as opposed to scrapping ships and reducing overall capacity in the second.
With a difficult rate market and few prospects for a near-term recovery, the speculation hard turned to a possible new wave of scrapping to reduce capacity in the crude oil tanker segment. Pointing to data from Clarkson, BIMCO acknowledges that demolitions are up from the start of last year but overall says that the second-hand market is winning out.
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Aframax trans-Atlantic freight spiked over 38% from Feb. 17