Freight indices // Week 23
The small-tonnage shipping market is still waiting for the new grain season. The vast majority of operators are only thinking about how to minimise losses and hold out until the market picture normalizes.
Waterborne shipments
Bunker fuel prices // Week 23
Dynamics of average mazut prices, $/tonne
Freight indices // Week 22
The small-tonnage shipping market is still looking extremely weak and depressed virtually in all freight sections. At the same time, freight rates hold steady in the Black, Azov and Mediterranean Seas as they simply have nowhere to fall.
Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi Seaport and APM Terminals Poti sign memorandum on cooperation within Middle Corridor
Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi Seaport and APM Terminals Poti (a division of Maersk), which owns the Poti seaport (Georgia), have signed a memorandum of cooperation within the Trans-Caspian International Transport Route (TITR, or the Middle Corridor). This was announced by the port’s CEO Oksana Kiktenko.
Bunker fuel prices // Week 22
Dynamics of average mazut prices, $/tonne
Freight indices // Week 21
The small-tonnage market never ceases to amaze players with negative developments. “When it seemed that the bottom had already been reached, we heard a knock from below,” a local broker laconically commented on the situation in the Azov and Black Seas .
Ventspils Freeport cargo turnover in April 2025
The April cargo turnover of the Ventspils Free Port reached a record level compare with the other months of 2025. In particular, the port operators processed approximately 925,000 t of cargo, which is 57,000 t more than in March.
Bunker fuel prices // Week 21
Dynamics of average mazut prices, $/tonne