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 8 headlines make it a typical market day. The norm across the last 59 published days is about 8.
Today’s Headlines
8 headlines · Thursday, 15 October 2026
- 01
Clean Tanker Index led freight, up 4.95% week-on-week.
- 02
Capesize was the weakest freight index, down 16.36% on the week.
- 03
Crude oil (Brent) was the top commodity gainer, up 28.49% month-on-month.
- 04
LNG (Japan) fell hardest, down 6.68% on the month.
- 05
S&P activity in 2026-Q4: 35 reported deals, fell 93.47% on the quarter.
- 06
Other led sale-&-purchase with 14 deals in 2026-Q4.
- 07
Congestion watch: Tanjong Pagar had the longest queue with 14 vessels waiting.
- 08
Fleet supply: bulkers slow-steaming (speed index 0.781), 39% of tonnage idle.
Freight Indices
Week-on-week moves · published under our own generic names
Capesize
TC $32,920/day
Clean Tanker Index
Dirty Tanker Index
Dry Bulk Freight Index
Handysize
TC $18,056/day
Panamax
TC $21,680/day
Supramax
TC $23,327/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
- Crude oil (Brent)+28.5%
- Natural gas (Europe)+20.4%
- Crude oil (WTI)+17.2%
- Crude oil (Dubai)+17.1%
Decliners
- LNG (Japan)-6.7%
- Gasoline (NY Harbor, conventional)-0.3%
Commodity prices are monthly; moves are month-over-month, not week-on-week.
Sale & Purchase
Latest quarter pulse
Deals · 2026-Q4
Disclosed value
Avg $/dwt
Most active
Other
14 deals
$446/dwt
Tankers
12 deals
$534/dwt
Dry Bulk
9 deals
$261/dwt
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
- Tanjong Pagar140.6d
- Gegua Oil Terminal120.2d
- Burrard Inlet114.3d
- Ashdod Southport92.3d
- Thetis Island612.3d
- Limassol517.6d
Ports ranked by vessels waiting on the latest snapshot.
Fleet Deployment
Slow-steaming index & idle tonnage · AIS-derived (The Maritime)
- Dry Bulkidx 0.7839% idle
- Containerslow confidx 0.6038% idle
- Gaslow confidx 0.6536% idle
- Otheridx 0.8145% idle
- Tankersidx 0.6741% 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1 = slow-steaming (supply withdrawn); idle_share = tonnage at anchor/stopped.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.
Earlier Digests
The lead headline from each of the last 59 days
- 14 Oct 2026
Clean Tanker Index led freight, up 3.83% week-on-week.
- 13 Oct 2026
Clean Tanker Index led freight, up 3.29% week-on-week.
- 12 Oct 2026
Panamax led freight, up 2.54% week-on-week.
- 11 Oct 2026
Dirty Tanker Index led freight, up 10.84% week-on-week.
- 10 Oct 2026
Dirty Tanker Index led freight, up 10.84% week-on-week.
- 09 Oct 2026
Dirty Tanker Index led freight, up 19.22% week-on-week.
- 07 Oct 2026
Dirty Tanker Index led freight, up 13.03% week-on-week.
- 06 Oct 2026
Dirty Tanker Index led freight, up 21.84% week-on-week.
- 04 Oct 2026
Dirty Tanker Index led freight, up 21.24% week-on-week.
- 29 Sept 2026
Clean Tanker Index led freight, up 6.16% week-on-week.
- 28 Sept 2026
Panamax led freight, up 6.74% week-on-week.
- 27 Sept 2026
Clean Tanker Index led freight, up 9.64% week-on-week.
- 26 Sept 2026
Clean Tanker Index led freight, up 9.64% week-on-week.
- 25 Sept 2026
Clean Tanker Index led freight, up 9.64% week-on-week.
- 24 Sept 2026
Clean Tanker Index led freight, up 6.85% week-on-week.
- 20 Sept 2026
Dirty Tanker Index led freight, up 13.27% week-on-week.
- 19 Sept 2026
Dirty Tanker Index led freight, up 13.27% week-on-week.
- 18 Sept 2026
Dirty Tanker Index led freight, up 18.68% week-on-week.
- 17 Sept 2026
Dirty Tanker Index led freight, up 14.92% week-on-week.
- 16 Sept 2026
Dirty Tanker Index led freight, up 12.05% week-on-week.
- 15 Sept 2026
Dirty Tanker Index led freight, up 27.77% week-on-week.
- 14 Sept 2026
Dirty Tanker Index led freight, up 39.99% week-on-week.
- 13 Sept 2026
Dirty Tanker Index led freight, up 39.99% week-on-week.
- 09 Sept 2026
Clean Tanker Index led freight, up 19.27% week-on-week.
- 08 Sept 2026
Clean Tanker Index led freight, up 19.27% week-on-week.
- 07 Sept 2026
Capesize led freight, up 20.45% week-on-week.
- 06 Sept 2026
Capesize led freight, up 13.23% week-on-week.
- 05 Sept 2026
Capesize led freight, up 13.23% week-on-week.
- 04 Sept 2026
Capesize led freight, up 13.23% week-on-week.
- 03 Sept 2026
Capesize led freight, up 5.73% week-on-week.
- 02 Sept 2026
Clean Tanker Index led freight, up 2.09% week-on-week.
- 01 Sept 2026
Capesize led freight, up 14.93% week-on-week.
- 27 Aug 2026
Capesize led freight, up 10.57% week-on-week.
- 26 Aug 2026
Capesize led freight, up 4.02% week-on-week.
- 25 Aug 2026
Capesize led freight, up 4.83% week-on-week.
- 24 Aug 2026
Handysize led freight, up 1.16% week-on-week.
- 23 Aug 2026
Dirty Tanker Index led freight, up 6.37% week-on-week.
- 22 Aug 2026
Dirty Tanker Index led freight, up 2.48% week-on-week.
- 21 Aug 2026
Dirty Tanker Index led freight, up 2.48% week-on-week.
- 20 Aug 2026
Dirty Tanker Index led freight, up 2.48% week-on-week.
- 19 Aug 2026
Dirty Tanker Index led freight, up 2.48% week-on-week.
- 18 Aug 2026
Dirty Tanker Index led freight, up 10.0% week-on-week.
- 17 Aug 2026
Dirty Tanker Index led freight, up 7.34% week-on-week.
- 16 Aug 2026
Dirty Tanker Index led freight, up 3.01% week-on-week.
- 15 Aug 2026
Dirty Tanker Index led freight, up 3.01% week-on-week.
- 14 Aug 2026
Dirty Tanker Index led freight, up 3.01% week-on-week.
- 13 Aug 2026
Dirty Tanker Index led freight, up 3.01% week-on-week.
- 12 Aug 2026
Dirty Tanker Index led freight, up 3.01% week-on-week.
- 11 Aug 2026
Dirty Tanker Index led freight, up 3.01% week-on-week.
- 10 Aug 2026
Capesize led freight, up 12.36% week-on-week.
- 09 Aug 2026
Capesize led freight, up 17.6% week-on-week.
- 03 Aug 2026
Panamax led freight, up 4.4% week-on-week.
- 02 Aug 2026
Clean Tanker Index led freight, up 3.48% week-on-week.
- 01 Aug 2026
Clean Tanker Index led freight, up 3.48% week-on-week.
- 31 Jul 2026
Clean Tanker Index led freight, up 3.48% week-on-week.
- 30 Jul 2026
Clean Tanker Index led freight, up 3.92% week-on-week.
- 29 Jul 2026
Clean Tanker Index led freight, up 3.77% week-on-week.
- 28 Jul 2026
Clean Tanker Index led freight, up 5.84% week-on-week.
- 27 Jul 2026
Capesize led freight, up 10.18% week-on-week.
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 The Maritime’s own generic names; fleet deployment and secondhand values are derived by The Maritime. The commodity feed is monthly (moves are month-on-month) and the S&P feed is quarterly.