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Shipping freight rates fall sharply on excess supply and low demand

The BDI continued to soften and was down 5.78 pct and falls back below 1000 points this week.

The cape Index lost 17.25 per cent week over week to 1559 points this Friday. In the meantime, the panamax Index was almost firm or just lost 0.28 per cent and  closing at 1054 points. The Supramax and Handy size indices closed slightly firmer to 930 points (up 2.76 pct) and 464 points (by 3.34 pct) respectively.

The Supramax charter rates from Indonesia to India were rating at around $ 8000 per day passing Singapore. While, the Panamax vessels were rating around $ 6000 per day or $ 2000 lesser than Supramax delivery shanghai.

Freight rates next week expected to be flat soft next week.

The average charter rates were reported at around $ 11,109 per day for Cape, 8,388 per day for Panamax, $ 9729 per day for Supramax and $ 6799 per day for Handy size.

The futures for three years (2015-2018) were also reported at around $ 15000 per day for Cape, $ 8500 per day for Panamax, $ 8500 per day for Supramax and $ 7000 per day for Handy max.

The S8 route for Supramax was slightly slipped 2.77 pct to $ 6694 per day (last week $ 6885 per day). Freight rates from Indonesia to India is expected to be flat to soft next week compared to this week’s trend.

The Brent crude Oil prices was sharply falls 8.08 pct to $ 45.46 per barrel (last week $ 49.46 per barrel). The bunker prices also softened sharply and closed at $ 232.00 pmt (IFO 380 cst ex Singapore on 21st Aug 2015).

Baltic Dry Index (BDI) - DOWN
Cape index (BCI) - DOWN
Panamax index (BPI) - DOWN
Supramax index (BSI) - UP
Handy index - UP
(as of week ended 21 August 2015 (week on week changes))

source: http://coalspot.com