Chartering market at hand // week 7

摘要

The small-tonnage cargo traffic keeps slowing down in almost all regions, except for only the western Mediterranean, where players note steadily brisk flow of construction cargoes and slightly less frequent shipments of fertilizers and steel. However, given a further increase in tonnage list, freight rates are declining throughout the Mediterranean Sea ($0.5-1/t down). Even despite extreme tensions between Russia and Ukraine and the inclusion of the waters of both countries in the list of war risk areas, freight rates are sliding down in the Black Sea, while this downturn is even more significant than in the Mediterranean area as the lack of new cargo offers is even more acute. Only the rates for shipments from Berdyansk and Mariupol are not decreasing this week, but rather even grow, as these ports are the most unwanted for owners.