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Baltic Index Snaps 5-session Winning Streak

Jan 06, 2025

The Baltic Exchange's dry bulk sea freight index, which tracks rates for ships carrying dry bulk commodities, snapped its five-session winning streak on Monday, pressured by weaker rates across capesize and supramax vessel segments.The index…

Great Lakes Limestone Trade Down in 2024

Jan 03, 2025

Shipments of limestone on the Great Lakes totaled 28.3 million tons in 2024, a decrease of 3.9 percent compared to 2023.  2024’s loadings were below the trade’s 5-year average by 2.9 percent.Loadings from U.S. quarries decreased 3.4 percent from the prior year to 22…

Large Vessel Rates Firm, Baltic Index Rises

Jan 03, 2025

The Baltic Exchange's dry bulk sea freight index, which tracks rates for ships carrying dry bulk commodities, rose for a fifth consecutive session on Friday, aided by firm capesize and panamax vessel rates.The index, which factors in rates for capesize…

Baltic Index Logs Worst Year since 2014

Dec 26, 2024

The Baltic Exchange's dry bulk sea freight index, which tracks rates for ships carrying dry bulk commodities, inched up on Tuesday but recorded its worst year since 2014, hurt by weaker rates across all vessel segments.The Baltic report will not be published until Jan…

Baltic Index Ticks Up as Large Bulkers Post Gains

Dec 23, 2024

The Baltic Exchange's dry bulk sea freight index, which tracks rates for ships carrying dry bulk commodities, rose on Monday, as rates increased across larger vessel segments.The index, which factors in rates for capesize, panamax and supramax shipping vessels…

Baltic Index Snaps 3-Session Slide

Dec 20, 2024

The Baltic Exchange's dry bulk sea freight index, which tracks rates for ships carrying dry bulk commodities, snapped its three-session losing streak on Friday, supported by strong rates across the capesize and panamax vessel segments.The index…

Germany’s Mosel River Remains Closed for Lock Repairs

Dec 19, 2024

The Mosel River in Germany will remain closed to cargo shipping in January despite the success of a temporary lock helping to free vessels trapped on the river after an accident, navigation authorities said on Thursday.The temporary lock will…

Broad Sector Declines puts Baltic Index at 17-month low

Dec 18, 2024

The Baltic Exchange's dry bulk sea freight index, which tracks rates for ships carrying dry bulk commodities, fell on Wednesday, hitting its lowest level in nearly 17 months, as rates dipped across all vessel segments.The index, which factors in rates for capesize…

Baltic Index Retreats Across All Segments

Dec 17, 2024

The Baltic Exchange's dry bulk sea freight index, which tracks rates for ships carrying dry bulk commodities, retreated on Tuesday rates dipped across all vessel segments.The index, which factors in rates for capesize, panamax and supramax shipping vessels…

Port Cost Miscalculation Led to Six-Figure Loss

Dec 12, 2024

In a recent case underscoring the essential nature of precise cost estimation in maritime logistics, the International Transport Intermediaries Club (ITIC) settled a $140,000 claim resulting from an error in calculating port charges.The incident involved a South American grain shipment…

Great Lakes NOV Iron Ore Trade Dips

Dec 10, 2024

Shipments of iron ore on the Great Lakes totaled 4.3 million tons in November, a decrease of 4.7 percent from 2023. Shipments were below the month’s 5-year average by 3.5 percent.Year-to-date the iron ore trade stands at 45.2 million tons, a decrease of 2…

Egypt's Delayed Russian Wheat Shipment Begins Loading

Dec 08, 2024

The first shipment from Egypt’s purchase of 430,000 metric tons of Russian wheat began loading on Saturday, following a nearly three-month delay, three sources with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters.The shipment, consisting of 63,000 tons…

Brazil Grain Barges Return as Amazon Drought Eases

Nov 27, 2024

Transportation of soybeans and corn on barges along the Brazilian Amazon's Tapajos River, which had been suspended in early October due to dry weather, resumed at 50% capacity this week, operators said on Wednesday.Shipping began again on that waterway…

Big Bulk Ship Rates Drop, again

Nov 27, 2024

The Baltic Exchange's dry bulk sea freight index, which tracks rates for ships carrying dry bulk commodities, fell to a near three-week low on Wednesday, pulled down by weaker capesize and panamax vessel rates.The index, which factors in rates for capesize…

170 Arrested in Coal Ship Blockade

Nov 24, 2024

A climate change protest off the coast of Australia's New South Wales State forced an inbound ship to turn back from the country's largest terminal for coal exports on Sunday, the port operator said.New South Wales police said 170 protesters…

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