- Baltic Exchange to adapt its benchmark dry bulk freight indexes to upcoming IMO 2020 regulations, by using vessels without scrubbers in its timecharter calculations.
- Prediction is that in January 2020, not more than 10% of trading ships will have scrubbers installed, making no-scrubber vessels the standard benchmark vessel.
- It published freight rates for benchmark shipping routes across the tanker, dry bulk and container sectors, and freight indexes.
- S&P Global Platts competes with the Baltic...
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