The Baltic Exchange’s main sea freight index, climbed to the highest in more than a week on Tuesday as shipping rates for all vessel segments increased.
According to Reuters, the overall index, which factors in rates for capesize, panamax and supramax shipping vessels, was up 42 points, or 7.6%, at 594. The capesize index (.BACI) gained 19 points, or 6.7%, at 303.
Average daily earnings for capesizes (.BATCA), which typically transport 150,000-tonne cargoes such as iron ore and coal, were up $159 at $2,513.
Shipbroker Allied in a weekly note, wrote referring to the capesizes wrote that shipowners are seriously considering idling capacity to wait out the current crash in rates.
The supramax index (.BSIS) rose 80 points, or 11%, to 807. The index marked its highest percentage gain in a single day, in Refinitiv records stretching back to October 2017.
