Atlantic and Asia-Pacific Capesize freight rates dip on little activity

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Asia-Pacific and AtlanticCapesize markets continued to see ratesfalling Thursday with demand for tonnagetaking a back seat. The market for a goodpart of the trading day was in a quiet moodin the Pacific. “There is nothing happeningin the Pacific. There is less pressure tofix and the miners are just watching themarket,” a shipbroker said, adding thatthere was no real momentum in the marketon the day.