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Saturday, 29 January 11
PRESSURE ON SHIPPING MARKET MAY CONTINUE UNTIL MID FEBRUARY 2011


COALspot.com - The BDI continues to drop and saw a drop of about 5 pct this week closing at 1370 points.

In  May 2010 the BDI touched 4,209 points which was highest in 2010 and since then the BDI has dropped almost 70 pct . The Cape index also continued to remain soft with a drop of about 2.50 pct and closed at 1,556 points.

The average charter rate for Cape size vessels was at $ 8,859 per day almost close to 2008 lows. Panamax  index was the most affected this week with the index down by 270 points and closed at 1,650 points. Supramax and Handy size index saw a slight upward movement and closed at 1,427 points and 777 points respectively.

According to Vistaar Shipping Singapore, the spot charter rates for Supramax in the far east remained under pressure and vessels were reported fixed only at $ 7000-8000 per day for trip to via Indonesia to India.

Capt. Reddy, director of Vistaar shipping said, With the flood situation in Australia likely to continue for some more time and with the Chinese New year coming the market are likely to be under pressure at least until mid February 2011.

The average charter rates was at Cape/$ 6177 per day , Panamax/$ 10689 per day , Supramax/$ 12642 per day and Handy size/$ 10560 per day.

The supramax index in the feast (S6 route) was down by $ 467 per day (down by 5.71 pct) and closed at $ 7714 per day (last week $ 8181 per day). The EC India/ China (S7 route) was down by 123 points (up by 1.05 pct) and closed at $ 11498 per day (last week $ 11621 per day). The S6 route is likely to be soft next week.

The futures for three years (2011-2013) was at around Cape/$ 20000 per day, Panamax/$ 15000 per day, Supramax/$ 15000 per day , Handy size/$ 10750 per day.

The congestion in EC Australia reduced slightly to 106 vessels this week (last week 110  vessels). The vessels waiting at main coal loading ports were at Hay point/14, DBCT/31, Gladstone/13, Abbot Point/Nil, New Castle/40, Port Kembla/6 vessels. On the WC Australia iron ore vessels waiting reduced  to 31 vessels (last week 41 vessels).

The waiting at Indian ports for coal vessels was quite normal except for Paradip, Haldia, Kandla where the berthing delays was high with berthing delays of about 10/12 days.

The brent crude prices was firm almost touching $ 100 per barrel and closed at $ 99.31 per barrel (last week $ 97.63 per barrel). Bunker prices also firmed and was at $ 552.00 pmt (last week $ 542.00 pmt) for IFO 380 cst ex Singapore on 28th Jan 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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