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Sunday, 10 April 11
SOFT FREIGHT MARKET TREND LIKELY TO BE CONTINUED - VISTAAR SHIPPING


COALspot.com - The freight market continued to soften further with the BDI breaking the 1,500 points and closing at 1376 points down by almost 10 pct.

All other sectors were also down with cape and panamax index also down by 10 to 11 pct. The Supramax index was down by about 3.5 pct and closed at 1457 points. The handy size index remained stable and was at the same levels at 786 points. Even though the charter rates were down the freight levels almost remained at same levels because of high bunker prices with Brent crude touching 126.74 per barrel. The crude prices are likely to be firm with the tensions in Libya and other countries like Yemen, Syria etc . Shipping market will continue to have the effect of earth quake and nuclear crisis in Japan.

The Supramax vessels opening Far East/SE Asia region were seen reported fixed around US$ 15,000 delivery Shanghai/Rizhao range.  The freight markets likely to be soft next week also. Short period rates on Panamax was around US$ 15,000 per day and on Supramax was around 15,000 per day.

The average charter rates was at Cape/US$ 7920 per day , Panamax/US$ 13603 per day , Supramax/US$ 15235 per day and Handy size/US$ 11759 per day.

The Supramax index in the feast (S6 route) softened further by 3.28 pct (down by 505 points) and closed at US$ 14,886 per day (last week US$ 15,391 per day). The EC India/China (S7 route) also continued to softened and was down by 4.33 pct (down by US$ 650 per day) and closed at US$ 14,358 per day (last week US$ 15,008 per day).  The S6 route is likely to continue to soften further , whereas the S7 route also likely soften further. However quite a few iron ore shipments will be moving out of WC India before Mid May prior onset of monsoons.

The futures for three years (2011-2013) was at around Cape/US$ 18,500 per day, Panamax/US$ 16,000 per day, Supramax/US$ 15000 per day , Handy size/US$ 11,250 per day.

The congestion in EC Australia reduced to 72 vessels this week (last week 84 vessels). The vessels waiting at main coal loading ports were at Hay point/8, DBCT/26, Gladstone/11, Abbot Point/2, New Castle/22, Port Kembla/3 vessels. On the WC Australia iron ore vessels waiting reduced was at 37 vessels (last week 39 vessels).

The waiting at Indian ports for coal vessels was quite normal.

The crude oil prices continued to firm up and closed at US$ 126.74 per barrel (last week US$ 119.93 per barrel). Bunker prices also firmed up and closed higher at US$ 684.50 pmt (last week US$ 657.00 pmt) for IFO 380 cst ex Singapore on 8th April 2011.

Click here for Vistaar’s forecasted (terms & conditions apply) spot freight rates for coal & Iron-ore cargo for specific routes (cs)
Reported by Vistaar Shipping, Singapore



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