LNG

Plenty of fixing activity on the LNG spot market, albeit focused primarily on the Atlantic side, has not done much to push rates up. Reports of some period and spot fixing early on in the week led to around 4-5 fixtures that has cemented the levels we are seeing. For summer months, modern 2-stroke tonnage commanding nearly $100,000/day shows signs of a healthy and active fixing market but with the main holiday season approaching it will be a hard push to get ships fixing too much higher.

BLNG1 Aus-Japan was quite flat as the Pacific languishes behind the Atlantic, 160cbm ships lost $128 to a close of $39,526 while the 2-stroke 174cbm ships gained $1,121 to finish at $52,021. Out in the Atlantic BLNG2 Houston-Cont gained for both ships and the 160cbm finished up at $69,600 while the 2-strokes maintained a $20,000 delta finishing at $89,100. Houston-Japan BLNG3 inched higher with 2-stroke 174cbm at $97,500 while the 160cbm TFDE ships closed at $78,448.

With two ships taken by Gail from Shell, period was not lacking in activity but rates are softer while owners take stock of potential winter spikes, for six-months we published $102,900, one-year terms at $82,833 and the three-year periods finished at $84,000.

 

LPG

There were only a few reported fixtures this past week from the Middle East, and rates took a slight downturn as a result. For the month of July, there has been a spate of fixing already and it could, in terms of physical fixtures, outperform other summer periods from years previous. But it is early in the month still and there are no absolutes in LPG. The BLPG1 Ras Tanura-Chiba index fell by $4.071 to a close of $63.143 and a daily TCE earning equivalent of $42,147.

The Atlantic market has improved in terms of activity, but rates still suffered, if only slightly. BLPG2 Houston-Flushing lost $1.8 to close a $61 and a daily TCE earning of $58,262. While BLPG3 Houston-Chiba fell by $2.143 to $108.571 and a daily TCE earning equivalent of $39,977.