What moved today
The shipping market in one read — freight, commodities, sale-&-purchase, port congestion and fleet deployment, stitched into plain-English headlines. Every figure is read straight from the underlying data and nothing is estimated.
Today’s Headlines
8 headlines · Tuesday, 23 June 2026
- 01
Capesize led freight, up 5.3% week-on-week.
- 02
Panamax was the weakest freight index, down 2.47% on the week.
- 03
Wheat (US HRW) was the top commodity gainer, up 7.45% month-on-month.
- 04
Jet-kerosene (US Gulf Coast) fell hardest, down 17.43% on the month.
- 05
S&P activity in 2026-Q2: 190 reported deals, fell 12.04% on the quarter.
- 06
Bulker led sale-&-purchase with 106 deals in 2026-Q2.
- 07
Congestion watch: New Priok Port had the longest queue with 13 vessels waiting.
- 08
Fleet supply: bulkers slow-steaming (speed index 0.809), 36% of tonnage idle.
Freight Indices
Week-on-week moves · published under our own generic names
Capesize
TC $37,631/day
Clean Tanker Index
Dirty Tanker Index
Dry Bulk Freight Index
Handysize
TC $16,804/day
Panamax
TC $18,860/day
Supramax
TC $21,715/day
Week-on-week vs the freshest observation 4-12 days prior, per index. Our own generic index names.
Commodity Backdrop
Top movers, month-on-month
Gainers
- Wheat (US HRW)+7.5%
- Natural gas (US)+5.8%
- Natural gas (Henry Hub, EIA spot)+5.1%
- Natural gas (Europe)+4.9%
Decliners
- Jet-kerosene (US Gulf Coast)-17.4%
- Gasoline (NY Harbor, conventional)-12.5%
- Crude oil (Brent, EIA spot)-11.1%
- Crude oil (Brent)-10.7%
Commodity feed (World Bank Pink Sheet + EIA) is monthly; moves are month-over-month, not week-on-week.
Sale & Purchase
Latest quarter pulse
Deals · 2026-Q2
Disclosed value
Avg $/dwt
Most active
Dry Bulk
106 deals
$299/dwt
Tankers
70 deals
$494/dwt
Other
11 deals
$494/dwt
Containers
3 deals
S&P feed is quarterly; the period shown is the latest available quarter (may be in progress). Quarter-on-quarter compares deal COUNT.
Port Congestion
Busiest waiting ports · vessels at anchor
- New Priok Port131.8d
- Kumport121.1d
- Burrard Inlet102.5d
- Mardas101.2d
- Dtse / Gegua Oil Terminal100.8d
- Gamcheon/Busan70.7d
Ports ranked by vessels waiting on the latest snapshot.
Fleet Deployment
Slow-steaming index & idle tonnage · AIS-derived (TheMaritime)
- Dry Bulkidx 0.8136% idle
- Containerslow confidx 0.5845% idle
- Gaslow confidx 0.8447% idle
- Otheridx 0.8652% idle
- Tankersidx 0.7255% idle
AIS-derived deployment read: speed_index<1 = slow-steaming (supply withdrawn); idle_share = tonnage at anchor/stopped. Shares only, not extrapolated to absolute fleet tonnage.
The digest is a pure in-database rollup over feeds the platform already maintains — it fetches no new source and can never drift from the deep pages it summarises. Every number is read straight from its underlying table. A section with no data for the day is marked unavailable rather than estimated. Freight indices are shown under TheMaritime’s own generic names; fleet deployment and secondhand values are derived by TheMaritime. The commodity feed is monthly (moves are month-on-month) and the S&P feed is quarterly.