Main sea freight index at Baltic Exchange continues to drop to 728 points

Published: Nov 2, 2015 10:24
The main sea freight index at Baltic Exchange for ships carrying dry bulk commodities continued to decline to 728 points on Thursday mainly on lower capesize, panamax and supramax rates.

UNITED KINGDOM October 30 2015 12:40 PM

LONDON (Scrap Register): The main sea freight index at Baltic Exchange for ships carrying dry bulk commodities continued to decline to 728 points on Thursday mainly on lower capesize, panamax and supramax rates.

The overall index, which factors in average daily earnings of capesize, panamax, supramax and handysize dry bulk transport vessels, down by another 8 points to 728 points on Wednesday.

The main sea freight index at Baltic Exchange is the rate which tracks for ships carrying dry bulk commodities.


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