UNITED KINGDOM July 12 2016 4:39 PM     

LONDON (Scrap Register): The main  sea freight index at Baltic Exchange for ships carrying dry bulk commodities  continued to stay above 700 points on Monday mainly due to strong cape, panamax  and supramax rates.

The Baltic Dry Index, which provides an assessment of  the price of moving the major raw materials – such as coal, iron ore and grain –  by sea by taking in 23 shipping routes measured on a time charter basis, up by  another 01 points to 704 points on Monday.

The index is based on a daily  survey of agents all over the world. Baltic Dry hit a temporary peak on May 20,  2008, when the index hit 11,793. The lowest level ever reached was on February  10 2016, when the index plummeted to 290 points.