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 a copy of yesterday in the entire dry bulk market. The capes had again fine activity, the panamax with renewed slower activity, the supramax and handysize both with unchanged activity.
The capesizes had today fine activity and therefore the result was with minor increasing rates in almost all areas and directions. For the panamax size the activity was again little slowing and the market reacted with minor falling rates in almost all areas and directions.
For the supramax and handysize dry cargo tonnage the market today had again little slower activity levels. The supramax tonnage had little slower activity and with minor falling rate levels in most areas and directions. For the handysize vessels the market was again with unchanged activity, and resulted in very marginal falling rates in all areas and directions.
The European coaster market was today with little slowing activity level. In the Baltic Sea area or on the Continent the freight rates were with fully unchanged levels. The freight rates in the Black Sea area were with minor increasing rates and the Mediterranean had fully unchanged rate levels.
The tanker market was today with general slower level of activity. The crude oil tankers had little slower activity resulting in very minor falling rates in most areas and directions. The product tanker market was also with further slowing activity and it resulted in slight falling rate levels from the various loading areas.
We will be back on Monday with more freight market news from www.icshipbrokers.com

