VLGC rates slide further on slow trade

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Crystal Chan
06 April 2015
 

A slowdown in LPG trade has caused very large gas carrier (VLGC) rates to slide again.

On 2 April, the Baltic Exchange assessed the benchmark Ras Tanura-Chiba rate at USD79.25/tonne, working out to daily earnings of USD74,280 at current bunker prices in Fujairah.

Indian Oil Corporation last week fixed G. Symphony and Aquamarine Progress for USD2.5 million and USD3.3 million. South Korean LPG importer E1 booked Aurora Leo, but the rate was not revealed.

Brokers and LPG traders told IHS Maritime that the Easter weekend and the Tomb-sweeping holiday in China on 6 April have resulted in limited trading.

A Japanese trader said, "Now that winter is over, demand isn't that high. We think there is

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Asia VLCCs Face Pressure of Low Rates

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By MarEx 2015-03-20 10:56:57

Rates for very large crude carriers (VLCCs) on key Asian routes will face further pressure next week even as owners resist attempts to push rates lower, brokers said.

Ship owners were showing a united front to keep rates above 50 on the Worldscale measure from the Middle East to Asia, a Singapore-based VLCC broker said on Friday.

"Nobody is doing anything below W50. Owners are keeping numbers up," the broker said.

Oil majors including Chevron, Shell and BP had all chartered VLCCs at freight rates above W50 this week, Reuters freight data showed.

But the broker questioned how long ship owners could stop rates falling as the amount of available tonnage is increasing. "Owners seem to be

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Baltic Dry Index (BDI)

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13 March 2015

Baltic Dry Index (BDI)    +2   562
Rates

   

BCI

(Cape index)

BPI

(Panamax index)

BSI

 (Supramax index)
INDEX  

378

-16

585

-1

606

+10
SPOT TC AVG (USD)

3982

-111

4692

 -5

6334

+107
YESTERDAY (USD)

4093

  

4697

  

6227

  
YEAR AGO (USD)

20952

   8956   12368  




Spot  TC Average = The Average Value of the Main Shipping Routes applicable for each of the 3 types of Ships
BDI=The Weighted Composite Index of BCI/BPI/BSI

BIMCO: Dry Bulk to Recover Slightly in Q2, But Rates Will Remain Under $10,000

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Monday March 16, 2015

Capesize vessels are being scrapped younger

BIMCO Friday said since early December 2014 conditions in the dry bulk shipping market have been “extremely bad”, but the second quarter of 2015 may be looking up slightly.

On 18 February, the Baltic Dry Index (BDI) hit an all-time low of 509, with Capesize, Panamax, and Handysize bulkers all making less than $5,000 per day on the spot market and Supramax freight rates were only marginally higher at $5,002 per day.

BIMCO predicted that Capesize time charter rates for the second quarter of 2015 would fall within the range of $3,000 to $9,000 per day, while during the same period Panamax

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Ships Beached for Scrap as Returns Reach Record Low

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Pakistani shipyard workers cut up metal broken off vessels beached at one of the 127 ship-breaking plots in Geddani, west of Karachi. Photographer: Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty Images

 

 

(Bloomberg) -- Scrap yards are preparing for record numbers of freighters as shipping rates tumble to all-time lows.

Owners may demolish 40 million deadweight tons of dry bulk carriers, more than double last year’s total, according to Arctic Securities ASA in Oslo. Rates to ship commodities slumped 66 percent last year amid a glut of capacity, the worst performance since the global recession.

China’s combined imports of iron ore and coal, the market’s biggest cargoes, fell to a two year low last month, according to customs data. The

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