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From Market Insights
Worldscale and voyage economics: compare like with like
Worldscale expresses tanker freight against a nominal route scale, using negotiated percentage levels.
Reading crude market data without confusing prices with freight
A crude price series can provide useful context, but it does not measure the cost of chartering a tanker.
Clean tanker screening: keep petroleum and chemical requirements distinct
A familiar commercial label should not replace cargo-specific screening.
Product tanker enquiries: define the grade before discussing availability
Refineries turn crude oil into a range of petroleum products. For a shipping enquiry, that broad market description must become an exact cargo specification before a vessel can be screened properly.
Shipping glossary
- Laycan
- Laydays and cancelling — the window in which a vessel must arrive to load.
- WS (Worldscale)
- Index used to price tanker freight as a percentage of a flat rate.
- TCE
- Time charter equivalent — voyage earnings expressed per day.
- DWT
- Deadweight tonnage — the weight a ship can safely carry.
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