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 with a general fine activity in the entire drybulk market. The capes had again a very good activity, the panamax now with improving activity and the supramax and handysize both had fair activity.

The capesizes had again very good activity and resulting in really fine increasing rates in almost all areas and directions. For the panamax size the activity was little improving and the market reacted with very minor increasing rates in almost all areas and directions.

For the supramax and handysize dry cargo tonnage the market had unchanged fair activity levels. The supramax tonnage had fair activity with very minor increasing rate levels in most areas and directions. For the handysize vessels the market was also with fair activity, and resulted again in stable rates in all areas and directions.

The European coaster market was today with okay activity level. In the Baltic Sea area or on the Continent the freight rates were with stable rates. The freight rates in the Black Sea area were with minor falling rates today and the Mediterranean had unchanged rate levels today.

The tanker market was today with good level of activity. The crude oil tankers were with very good activity resulting in further increasing rates in most areas and directions. The product tanker market was today with improving activity and it resulted in fine increasing rate levels from the various loading areas.

We will be back tomorrow with more freight market news from www.icshipbrokers.com