Platts Market Data - Dry Freight

Platts Market Data – Dry Freight delivers the numbers you need to gauge your markets, your competition, and your future potential. Make critical decisions with confidence with end-of-day assessments, third party data, a rolling 45-day historic database, and analysis of the fundamentals impacting price. Complete and custom historical data sets are also available.

• Trade at price levels that are in sync with other market participants by having the latest global price assessments always to hand
• Quickly get a complete picture of the market
• Write contracts and negotiate transaction with confidence by understanding price driver and fluctuations
• Develop an inherently strong pricing and business strategy by referencing daily and historical spot and contract price assessments
• Mark your books, manage risk and support analysis and research when tracking trading patterns and price trends
• Support your Value at Risk (VAR) risk management analysis with access to our historical data
• Find your next opportunity by analyzing your forward curves and identifying diverse trading patterns, pricing trends and characteristics
• Quickly and easily absorb real-time information and end-of-day data throughout your company at a time – and in a format that suits you.

• Over 120 independent freight rate assessments updated daily, plus extensive listings and analysis of freight ‘heards' and fixtures
• Voyage rates ($/ton) and time charter equivalents ($/day)
• All major vessel sizes, from Capesize to Handysize
• All major dry freight commodities: alumina, bauxite, coking and thermal coal, ferrous scrap, grains, iron ore, limestone, petcoke and sugar
• Rolling 45-day historical database
• Choice of format and delivery for easy integration into back-office and analytical databases
• Receive your Platts Market Data within seconds of it being published with Platts API or intuitive Platts Excel Add-In