Platts team of shipping and transport specialists provide you with impartial, balanced shipping price information to help you capitalize on market opportunities and minimize your risks. Our pricing coverage of bulk tanker markets and bunkering is available in real-time, daily newsletters or as daily data files to suit your needs.
With over 35 years of covering the bunker shipping markets, Platts has become a leading global provider of spot and contract shipping pricing data for the industry. Platts shipping pricing is underpinned by industry leading coverage of cargo, crude oil and fuel oil markets.
Many of Platts’ daily crude oil and refined products spot market price assessments are recognized as industry benchmarks across all regions. They are used in a variety of ways including for the settlement of floating price deals; under long-term contracts; on a spot basis; and for the settlement of derivatives contracts such as swaps and by futures exchanges. The following is a list of all our key shipping and bunker related pricing benchmarks in the Americas, Asia and EMEA:
- North Sea - Dated Brent
- Singapore - Gasoil Regular 0.5% Sulfur
- Rotterdam (FOB) - Diesel 10 Ppm
- Singapore - HSFO 180 CST
- Singapore - HSFO 380 CST
- Rotterdam (FOB) - Fuel Oil 3.5%
- US Gulf Coast - Fuel Oil No. 6