The dry bulk market forged ahead over the past week amid higher iron ore, grain and coal volumes.
The Baltic Exchange’s Capesize 5TC set of spot-rate averages across five key routes skyrocketed 88% over the past seven days to $9,910 per day on Friday, marking its highest level since mid-January.
Rio Tinto hired two unnamed capesizes on Thursday to ship 170,000 tonnes of iron ore from Dampier, Western Australia, to Qingdao, China, at $7.30
