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Sunday, 17 April 11
THE FREIGHT MARKET APPEARS WILL CONTINUE TO BE SOFT NEXT WEEK - CAPT. REDDY


COALspot.com - "The freight market continued to soften further with all segments down except for the handy size which was marginally up by 10 points", said Capt. Reddy, Director of Vistaar Shipping Singapore. Vistaar Shipping is an experienced ship operator and handling coal vessels from Indoneisa, Australia, China and South Africa.

The BDI was down by 5.81 pct and closing at 1,296 points, whereas cape index was down by 2.98 pct and closed at 1,564 points. The panama index was most affected which was down by almost 11 pct and closed at 1,514 points. The Supramax index was down by 2.95 pct and closed at 1,414 points, whereas the handy size index was up by 1.27 pct and closed at 796 pct.

The market appears will continue to be soft next week also. The bunker prices have soften a bit and overall the freight are expected to be soft.

The Supramax vessels opening Feast/Se Asia region were seen reported fixed around US$ 13000 delivery Shanghai/Rizhao range. Short period rates on Panamax and Supramax was around US$ 15000 per day.

The average charter rates was at Cape/US$ 6856 per day , Panamax/US$ 12129 per day , Supramax/US$ 14781 per day and Handy size/US$ 11908 per day.

The Supramax index in the feast (S6 route) softened further by 2.89 pct (down by 431 points) and closed at US$ 14455 per day (last week US$ 14886 per day). The EC India/China (S7 route) also softened slightly and was down by 1.50 pct (down by US$ 216 per day) and closed at US$ 14142 per day (last week US$ 14358 per day).  The S6 and S& route likely to be soft soft week also. However WC India market could be slightly holding due to pressure of cargoes out of WC India before monsoons.

The futures for three years (2011-2013) was at around Cape/US$ 17000 per day, Panamax/US$ 15000 per day, Supramax/US$ 14500 per day , Handy size/US$ 11250 per day.

The congestion in EC Australia reduced to 60 vessels this week (last week 72 vessels). The vessels waiting at main coal loading ports were at Hay point/4, DBCT/22, Gladstone/11, Abbot Point/3, New Castle/18, Port Kembla/2 vessels. On the WC Australia iron ore vessels waiting reduced was at 33 vessels (last week 37 vessels).

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

The crude oil prices softened a bit and closed at US$ 123.44 per barrel (last week US$ 126.74 per barrel). Bunker prices also softened and closed at US$ 673.50 pmt (last week US$ 684.50 pmt) for IFO 380 cst ex Singapore on 15th 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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