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Wednesday, 27 April 11
DRY BULK MARKET LACKS ACTIVITY, RATES KEEP RETREATING - NIKOS ROUSSANOGLOU, HELLENIC SHIPPING
 With the Easter Holidays for a large of the world now behind, the dry bulk market kept lacking activity on Tuesday, which led the Baltic Dry Index (BDI) further down to 1,250 points, 0.32% lower than the previous session. The Panamax segment once again suffered the bulk of the losses, while the Capesize market was marginally higher by 0.39% to 1,546 points.
In its weekly report, shipbroker Barry Rogliano Salles said that the Capesize market was relatively inactive last week, partly due to the Easter holidays which triggered a lull in the market. “The levels remained grossly flat at the weak level of about US$6/7000/day on average. Partly due to chtrs holding back nominations under their COA’s until the end of the quarter, a severe lack of cargo was felt, particularly for loading in the Atlantic, which meant that owners had to lower their rates to obtain the rare business around, and a TARV was worth a very low US$4/5,000/day while Fronthaul business gave returns in the high teens.
A more regular amount of activity in the Pacific enabled the rates to sustain themselves unusually higher than in the Atlantic, standing at around US$6-7,000/day. Backhaul cargoes were still extremely scarce and continued to pay a negative return of about minus US$7,000/day. Ships in the PG could obtain mid teens return for a trip via India to china. On the period front, short period deals are now worth in the low teens dely China redly ww, depending mainly on eco consumptions as in these market conditions of rock bottom TC rates and very healthy bunker levels the vast majority of the cape fleet is slow steaming. This week started quietly and we will need to see a fresh income of Atlantic cargoes to make the market move” said the report.
Regarding the Panamax market, BRS noted that during the course of the past, the Baltic Panamax Index eased by $1,000 in all basins which represent a significant loss of around 10%. The Pacific rounds were fixed at mid US$8,000/day and the TA round at just below US$11,000/day. The main reason of this trend was the lack of cargoes worldwide and the good number of spot vessel looking for business. The Period activity was the most impacted market as it tumbled and lost US$2,500/day opening the week at US$14,500/day and closing it US$12,000/12,500/day for nice TES 74 dwt.
As for the Supramax/Handy segments, “ast week we had a slow activity on the market due to the Easter holidays break, the Supramax market has been slowly sliding down in all areas. During this Easter mood, the BSI lost only 13 points to reach on average of the TC routes of US$14,645 at the end of the week. Out of the USG owners were fixing their Supras around US$23,000 daily for redelivery Skaw/Passero whereas redelivery Singapore/Japan was fixed in the low US$30,000. The Black Sea/Med area was not improving, most of the ships were ballasting out, the lucky ones fixing clinker or steels. A large supra was fixed at US$7,000 delivery Black Sea/redel USG. The Supramax market in the Pacific has been on a downfall since last week. Owners were trying to resist as feel market will bounce back this week due to more iron ore, nickel ore cargoes coming out but charterers pulling rates further down.
WCI India iron ore stems have increased as miners are trying to move as much as possible before the monsoons start. A few Indo coal stems, which were usually covered on COAs have been seen on the spot market. The Index for the pacific round ended in the 14k-15k levels. Modern Supramaxes are getting interest for short periods in the mid teens” concluded the shipbroker.
Meanwhile, in a separate report, Commodore Research & Consultancy focused on China developments, noting that 11 vessels were chartered to export thermal coal to China last week, 8 more than the week before that. “Domestic thermal coal prices remain relatively low compared with international coal prices but the overall price differential is slowly increasing. Australian coal cargoes remain unattractive, however, as freight costs exceed the difference between Datong and Newcastle prices. The differential between Datong and Newcastle FOB prices has increased to $7.50; last week the differential was $6 (the price of Datong coal has held steady at $129/ton; the FOB price of Newcastle coal has declined to $121.50/ton). The cost of freight to ship Australian coal to China currently stands at roughly $12/ton, well above the $7.50 price differential.
Chinese iron ore production has increased significantly on a month-on-month and year-on-year basis. Approximately 94.4 million tons of iron ore was produced in March, an increase of 21.9mt (30%) from 72.5mt produced in February and 14.7mt (18%) more than the 79.7mt produced in March 2010. Compared to the first three months of 2010, Chinese iron ore production has increased this year by 36.6mt (18%). Domestic iron ore production has remained at high levels due to lucrative prices. Production is expected to remain firm while prices stay high. Although iron ore imports will continue to be negatively affected by robust domestic production, imports have been able to remain at firm levels as demand has stayed robust” concluded the US-based consultancy.
Source: Nikos Roussanoglou, Hellenic Shipping
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Tuesday, 26 April 11
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Saturday, 23 April 11
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Saturday, 23 April 11
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Friday, 22 April 11
DRY BULK MARKET KEEPS FALLING, NOW AT TWO-MONTH LOWS - NIKOS ROUSSANOGLOU, HELLENIC SHIPPING
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