Freight market overview // 1st and 2nd weeks, 2019

摘要

Although the Black Sea market was much less active in very early January, new inquiries for transportation startedcoming again in the second week. Amid quite fast cargo flow recovery, owners were struggling to keep the quotesfrom falling, especially given the adverse weather conditions. Still, they eventually went lower than in late December.A 10,000 t steel shipment from Novorossiysk to Egypt was quoted at $23?24/t. The cost of carrying 5,000 t from thisport to the Marmara Sea moved to some $18?19/t.