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Capesize: The Capesize market is in need of a large cargo injection to rally rates in the run-up to the end of the year. Activity levels showed small pockets of strength, yet fixing values have continued to decline throughout the week.
BIMCO’s Niels Rasmussen, Chief Shipping Analyst, will be holding his third trio of quarterly “Shipping Market Overview & Outlook” webinars on 30 November and 1 December.
Capesize: The Capesize sector spent the week trundling along the market floor as the last few day’s brief revival of rates was quickly wiped out, returning the 5TC back to $5-6k OPEX levels. On a more positive note, the Atlantic basin has begun to see a little more fixture activity with both Transatlantic and Fronthaul from Eastern Canada trades being heard.
Capesize: The Capesize market continued to soften this week leaving little ambiguity about the state of the market as the 5TC posted at a low of $6,267 on Friday. While the Pacific rates have already been bottoming out in recent times, the Atlantic trade routes were the movers this week shedding value as hopes of a trend-bucking rally diminish.
BIMCO will host a one-hour webinar on 27 January at 10:00 CET to introduce the new standard term sheet for bilateral ship financing transactions, codenamed SHIPTERM.
Panamax: A strong week for the Panamax market, principally for the Atlantic basin, with a good replenishment of mineral cargoes seen all week versus a limited tonnage list. The weekly dry bulk market report contains a summary of the recent movements in the market, alongside the latest figures for average dry bulk earnings and Baltic Dry Indices.
Supramax: A week of falls across most routes led to the BSI closing at 3,348, a drop of 122 week-on-week. With Hurricane IDA the US Gulf lost momentum as cargo supply eased, whilst from South America fresh enquiry was limited. The weekly dry bulk market report contains a summary of the recent movements in the market, alongside the latest figures for average dry bulk earnings and Baltic Dry Indices.
As agricultural dry bulk commodities exports took a dive in the first quarter of this year and painted a gloomy picture for Panamax and Handymax freight rates, a stunning second quarter comeback have nearly tripled freight rates.
