Baltic Index Rises On Strong Rates Across Vessels

The Baltic Exchange’s dry bulk sea freight index, which monitors rates for vessels moving dry bulk commodities, rose on Friday as demand increased across all vessel segments. The main index, which tracks rates for capesize, panamax and supramax shipping vessels, gained 20 points, or 1.6%, to 1,261. But the index was down 1% for the …

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