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The Baltic Exchange’s dry bulk freight index, which tracks rates for ships carrying dry bulk commodities, rose to a one-week high on Friday, buoyed by rising rates for capesize vessels.<\/p>\n
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The main Baltic index, which tracks rates for capesize, panamax and supramax vessels, added 63 points, or 2.4%, to 2,722, its highest since June 12.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
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The capesize index was up 209 points, or 5.3%, at 4,149, its highest since April 10. The index registered a 1% weekly gain.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
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Average daily earnings for capesize vessels, which typically transport 150,000-metric-ton cargoes including iron ore and coal, increased $1,900 to $34,128.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
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The panamax index fell 53 points, or 2.5%, to 2,096 and was down 8.2% for the week.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
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Average daily earnings for panamax vessels, which usually carry 60,000 to 70,000 tons of coal or grain, fell $479 to $18,860.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
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Among smaller vessels, the supramax index was up 4 points, or 0.2%, at 1,718.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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June 19, 2026
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The Baltic Exchange’s dry bulk freight index, which tracks rates for ships carrying dry bulk commodities, rose to a one-week high on Friday, buoyed by rising rates for capesize vessels. The main Baltic index, which tracks rates for capesize, panamax and supramax vessels, added 63 …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/82077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}