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Baltic Index Falls for Fourth Straight Session

Jun 19, 2017

The Baltic Exchange's main sea freight index, tracking rates for ships carrying dry bulk commodities, fell for the fourth straight session on Monday, pressured by weaker capesize vessel rates. The overall index, which factors in rates for capesize…

Baltic Index Inches Up on Firmer Panamax Rates

Mar 23, 2017

The Baltic Exchange's main sea freight index, tracking rates for ships carrying dry bulk commodities, edged up on Thursday as panamax rates increased.The overall index, which also factors in rates for capesize, supramax and handysize vessels…

Baltic Index Snaps 14-day Winning Streak

Mar 21, 2017

The Baltic Exchange's main sea freight index, tracking rates for ships carrying dry bulk commodities, snapped a 14-session winning streak on Tuesday as rates for larger vessels fell.The overall index, which factors in rates for capesize…

Baltic Index Up for Ninth Straight Session

Mar 13, 2017

The Baltic Exchange's main sea freight index, tracking rates for ships carrying dry bulk commodities, rose for a ninth straight session on Monday, helped by stronger capesize rates.The overall index, which also factors in rates for panamax…

Spot Freight Rates Soar from North Europe to Asia

Mar 09, 2017

Spot container freight rates from North Europe to China increased by 45 percent this week, reaching a four-year high. The “World Container Index assessed by Drewry” market reading on the route from Rotterdam to Shanghai jumped to $1,076 per 40ft dry container today…

Baltic Index Ends Higher for 6th Straight Session

Mar 08, 2017

The Baltic Exchange's main sea freight index, tracking rates for ships carrying dry bulk commodities, ended higher for its sixth straight session on Wednesday, boosted by stronger rates across all vessel segments. The overall index, which also factors in rates for panamax…

Soaring Capesize Rates Push Baltic Index to 12-week High

Mar 07, 2017

The Baltic Exchange's main sea freight index, tracking rates for ships carrying dry bulk commodities, closed at a 12-week high on Tuesday on stronger rates across all vessel segments, especially capesizes. The overall index, which also factors in rates for panamax…

Baltic Index Gains for 9th Straight Session

Feb 27, 2017

The Baltic Exchange's main sea freight index, tracking rates for ships carrying dry bulk commodities, notched gains for the ninth straight session to end at a more than one-month high on Monday, helped by higher rates for panamax vessels.The index…

Higher Shipping Rates Boost Baltic Index

Feb 22, 2017

The Baltic Exchange's main sea freight index, tracking rates for ships carrying dry bulk commodities, rose on Wednesday due to strengthening rates across all vessel segments.The overall index, which factors in rates for capesize, panamax…

Spot Box Rates Rise Above 5-Year Average

Jan 05, 2017

Spot container freight rates on the major East-West routes reached a 20-month high this week and have risen above the average of the last 5 years, said a report by Drewry. The latest weekly reading is $1,770/40ft container for the composite index…

Wärtsilä Selected to ESI Excellence Europe

Mar 24, 2015

Wärtsilä has been selected as a constituent of the Ethibel Sustainability Index (ESI) Excellence Europe with effect from 23 March 2015. This is a remarkable continuation to the recognition  Wärtsilä received from Forum Ethibel in September 2014…

Stronger Panamaxes Boost Baltic Sea Freight Index

Mar 05, 2015

The Baltic Exchange's main sea freight index, which tracks rates for ships carrying dry bulk commodities, made minor gains on Thursday on higher rates for the panamax and smaller vessel segments. The overall index, which factors in average daily earnings of capesize…

GTT Joins the SBF 120 Index

Jun 09, 2014

LNG engineering company GTT, listed on the compartment A of Euronext Paris since February 27, 2014, announced its integration into the French stock market index SBF 120.On June 5, 2014, the Expert Indices Committee of Euronext decided the…

MOL Again Earns Listing on SRI Indices

Sep 27, 2012

Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. was selected for inclusion in the world’s major socially responsible investing (SRI) indices — the FTSE4Good Global Index Series and the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes (DJSI). This month, the FTSE Group, owned by the London Stock Exchange…

Index-Linked Container Contracts Take-Off

Dec 12, 2011

Half of all index-linked contracts filed with the US Federal Maritime Commission reference Drewry’s Container Freight Rate Insight pricing benchmarks. Drewry Maritime Research’s container freight rate benchmarks are the index of choice in index-linked container contracts…

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