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 today was today with one up, one down and two unchanged in the dry bulk market. The capes had really slow activity, the panamax with real slower activity, the supramax and handysize both with little improved activity.
The capesizes had today better activity and therefore the result was with slight increasing rates in almost all areas and directions. For the panamax size the activity was slower and the market reacted with slight falling rates in almost all areas and directions.
For the supramax and handysize dry cargo tonnage the market today had both unchanged activity levels. The supramax tonnage had unchanged activity and with stable rate levels in most areas and directions. For the handysize vessels the market was also with unchanged activity, and resulted in fully stable rates in all areas and directions.
The European coaster market was today with a wait and see activity level. In the Baltic Sea area or on the Continent the freight rates were with unchanged levels. The freight rates in the Black Sea area were with slight increasing rates and the Mediterranean had minor increasing rate levels.
The tanker market was again today with mixed level of activity. The crude oil tankers had slowing activity resulting in slight falling rates in most areas and directions. The product tanker market was with fair activity and it resulted in stable rate levels from the various loading areas.
We will be back tomorrow with more freight market news from www.icshipbrokers.com
