Negative bulkrater impliserer sterkt negative tendenser i verdensøkonomien

Rederiet Global Maritime har inngått et charter med kunden Glencore om frakt av korn for negativ dagrate på 2.000 US$ - dvs kunden får penger for å få varene sine fraktet. Baltic Dry Index som viser bulkrater blir ofte referert til som "Canary in the Coalmine" ifht sin rolle som ledende indikator i verdensøkonomien - og negative rater er så langt fra positivt som det går an å komme. 

Glencore International Plc (GLEN) hired a commodity ship with the operator of the vessel earning nothing and contributing to some of the fuel costs after freight rates for hauling raw materials had their worst-ever start to a year. Glencore chartered the vessel, operated by Global Maritime Investments Ltd., a Cyprus-based company with offices in London, at minus $2,000 a day for the first 60 days of the charter, Steve Rodley, GMI’s U.K. managing director, said by phone today. The shipment is Australian grains to Europe and it will put the ship in a better position for its next cargo, he said. “Our other option was to stay in the Pacific and earn poor revenues or ballast to the Atlantic and pay the fuel ourselves,” Rodley said. Ballasting refers to sailing without a cargo.

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