Atlantic, Asia-Pacific Capesize freight rates on divergent courses

摘要

The Capesize markets in the Asia-Pacific and Atlantic regions moved in separatedirections Thursday.A Singapore-based source with a shipbrokerage tracking the Asia-Pacific routessaid, “The market’s just a little weird today,rates are a little all over the place andthere’s no clear direction. Personally, I feelthe market will hover around these levels— it definitely looks like it’s trying to regainmomentum, but the overall market sentimenthasn’t really achieved the necessary velocityto break through the market’s uncertainty.”