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Saturday, 07 August 10
INDIAN COAL IMPORTS WILL PLAY AN IMPORTANT PART IN KEEPING THE FREIGHT MARKET FIRM IN FUTURE - VISTAAR
 COALspot.com: The freight market was volatile with market ending firmed and the BDI crossing 2000 points up by 3 pct, however the BCI was up by 14 pct closing at 2194 points. The panamax and Supramax was slightly down by 1.94 pct and 1.65 pct respectively, whereas handy size index was down by 3.56 pct.
Towards the end of the week the market seemed to be firmer with all the futures ending firmer. Chinese iron ore and coal imports are expected to improve towards fourth quarter 2010. The indian coal imports are likely to continue to be strong and will play an important part in keeping the freight market firm.
BDI (Baltic Dry Index Changes)
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BALTIC DRY INDEX CHANGE
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This week
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Last week
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Change
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Change %
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Baltic Dry Index
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2030
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1967
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63↑
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3.2
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Baltic Cape Index
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2194
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1922
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272 ↑
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14.15
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Baltic Panamax Index
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2581
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2632
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51↓
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-1.94
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Baltic Supra Index
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1731
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1760
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29↓
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-1.65
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Baltic Handy size Index
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974
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1010
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36↓
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-3.56
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As of 6 August 2010
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The average charter hire was at Cape/$ 18422 per day, Panamax/$ 20733 per day, Supramax/$ 18096 per day and Handysize/$ 14307 per day.
The supramax index in the Fareast (S6 route) was down by $ 540 per day and closed at $ 17631 per day. The ECI/China (S7) route was also increased by $ 1192 per day and closed at $ 18119 per day. The S6 and S7 routes are likely to be steady/firm.
The futures for three years(2010-2012) was firm for cape and panamax vessels and was at around Cape/$ 26000 per day, Panamax/$ 21000 per day, Supramax/$ 18500 per day, Handy size/$ 13500 per day. Short period and one year period rates for Supramax vessels were around $ 20-21000 per day with delivery feast.
The congestion in EC Australian ports was at 124 vessels this week (last week 126 vessels). The vessels waiting at main coal loading ports were at Hay point/6, DBCT/65, Gladstone/5, Abbot Point/3, New Castle/43 vessels, Port Kembla/2 vessels. On the WC Australia iron ore vessels waiting further reduced to 17 vessels (last week 27 vessels).
The waiting at Indian ports for coal vessels was quite normal around 3/4 days.
The Brent crude prices was firm touching above $ 82 per barrel and closed at $ 80.39 per barrel (last week $ 78.24 per barrel). The bunkers prices also firmed up by about $ 20 pmt and prices ex Singapore and was at $ 465.50 pmt (IFO 380 cst ex Singapore) on 6th August 2010.
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Saturday, 19 June 10
STRONG DEMAND, RISING PRODUCTION SETTING SCENE FOR COAL BONANZA - THE JAKARTA GLOBE
The Jakarta globe rerported that, As the nation’s coal miners enjoy burgeoning demand from energy-hungry economies such as China and India, th ...
Saturday, 19 June 10
DRY BULK MARKET DOWN ON CHINESE SLOWDOWN FEARS
Dry bulk freight rates have been on a freefall for more than two weeks now, something which has caused the industry’s benchmark, the Baltic Dr ...
Saturday, 19 June 10
COAL INDIA KEEN ON BLOCK DEVELOPMENT IN INDONESIA - THE HINDU BUSINESS LINE
Expanding horizon
Agreement by the Indonesian Government is likely to help CIL gain foothold in India's largest sourcing point of thermal coal.
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Friday, 18 June 10
THE PANAMAX MARKET CONTINUED ITS SOFTENING TREND - FEARNBULK
Handy
Flat Atlantic markets with most markets in ´slow mode´ due to holidays in China.
Supramax vessels open in the USG are achievi ...
Thursday, 17 June 10
INDONESIAN COAL PRICE REFERENCE FOR JUNE IS US$ 97.22/TON UP 5.59 PERCENT
COALspot.com: The directorate general of mineral, coal and geothermal of Indonesia has been publishing a monthly coal price reference (HBA) to be us ...
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- Semirara Mining and Power Corporation, Philippines
- Indian Energy Exchange, India
- Coal and Oil Company - UAE
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- Directorate General of MIneral and Coal - Indonesia
- Posco Energy - South Korea
- GAC Shipping (India) Pvt Ltd
- Asia Pacific Energy Resources Ventures Inc, Philippines
- Ministry of Finance - Indonesia
- Formosa Plastics Group - Taiwan
- Maheswari Brothers Coal Limited - India
- Wilmar Investment Holdings
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- Energy Development Corp, Philippines
- Wood Mackenzie - Singapore
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- Pipit Mutiara Jaya. PT, Indonesia
- The University of Queensland
- Commonwealth Bank - Australia
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- AsiaOL BioFuels Corp., Philippines
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- SMG Consultants - Indonesia
- Latin American Coal - Colombia
- Indian Oil Corporation Limited
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- Indonesian Coal Mining Association
- Miang Besar Coal Terminal - Indonesia
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- Tamil Nadu electricity Board
- IEA Clean Coal Centre - UK
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- Africa Commodities Group - South Africa
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- Alfred C Toepfer International GmbH - Germany
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- Parliament of New Zealand
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- Electricity Authority, New Zealand
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- Australian Commodity Traders Exchange
- Attock Cement Pakistan Limited
- Eastern Coal Council - USA
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