IC Shipbrokers herewith welcomes you to today’s freight market report. We are giving you an insight in today’s freight market and an update with the latest freight market indications.
The market was today in a little negative mood in the entire drybulk market. The capes had a little slower tendency today, the panamax and supramax had a slight negative tendency, and the handysize with a balanced tendency.
The capesizes had slower activity and it resulted in minor negative rates in almost all areas and directions. For the panamax size the activity was unchanged slow and the market reacted with slight falling rates in almost all areas and directions.
For the supramax and handysize dry cargo tonnage the market had unchanged activity levels. The supramax tonnage had minor falling rate levels in most areas and directions. For the handysize vessels the market was with okay activity, and resulted in fully unchanged rates in all areas and directions.
The European coaster market was today with unchanged activity level. In the Baltic Sea area or on the Continent the freight rates were with minor falling rates. The freight rates in the Black Sea area were with slight increasing rates today and the Mediterranean had also minor increasing rate levels today.
The tanker market was today with slower level of activity. The crude oil tankers were with slower activity resulting in minor falling rates in most areas and directions. The product tanker market was today with slower activity and it resulted in slight falling rate levels from the various loading areas.
We will be back tomorrow with more freight market news from www.icshipbrokers.com