Platts global freight assessments have provided a basis for trade across commodities for decades. As the market evolves, our scientific and transparent methodology is updated to reflect market changes more accurately. We bring consistency to our price assessments through principles and parameters that guide our market specialists at every stage of the process.
With Platts Market Data – Shipping you will receive:
-Global coverage
-Platts shipping assessments deeply embedded and underpinning our commodity price assessments
-Cross commodity, bulk market coverage
-Market relevance - 0.5% sulfur compliant, new routes are added, old routes removed
Coverage includes:
-Dirty Tankers - Freight rates by vessel/cargo size for 85+ key crude and fuel oil routes; dual rates - Worldscale/Lumpsum vs $/MT pricing
-Clean Tankers - Freight rates by vessel/cargo size for 90+ key refined oil and LPG routes and 25+ key petrochemical routes; dual rates - Worldscale/Lumpsum vs $/MT pricing
-LNG Carriers - Freight rates by vessel/cargo size for 99 LNG key routes
-Dry Bulk Carrier – 30+ Timecharter equivalent rate ($/day) for capesize, panamax and supramax size vessels and 120+ Voyage charter rates for capesize to handymax size vessels to transport alumina, bauxite, coking and thermal coal, ferrous scrap, grains, iron ore, limestone, petcoke, polymers and sugar
-Container box rates and bunker surcharges – Box and bunker surcharges rates ($/FEU) for 20 routes transporting manufactured goods
Sample Tables:
CORRECTION
DAILY_PRICES
MARKETDATA_DICTIONARY
Sample Fields:
Daily Prices
SYMBOL
ASSESSDATE
BATE
VALUE
DESCRIPTION
MDC
TRANSTYPE
UOM
CURRENCY
Corrections
SYMBOL
ASSESSDATE
BATE
VALUE
DESCRIPTION
MDC
TRANSTYPE
UOM
CURRENCY
MODIFEDDATETIME
MarketData_Dictionary
MDC
MULT_MDC
SYMBOL
STATUS
BATE
ASFR_CODE
CURRENCY
UOM
DECIMAL_PLACES
CONVERSION_FACTOR
CONVERSION_OP
UOM_OUT
EARLIEST_DATE
LATEST_DATE
ACTIVE
DESCRIPTION
PREVIOUS_SYMBOL
UPD_FLAG
FIRST_UPD_FLAG
ED_ATTR
ED_GROUP
MODIFIED_DATE
MODIFIED_BY