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 44 published days is about 8.
Today’s Headlines
8 headlines · Thursday, 27 August 2026
- 01
Capesize led freight, up 10.57% week-on-week.
- 02
Dirty Tanker Index was the weakest freight index, down 6.76% on the week.
- 03
Natural gas (Europe) was the top commodity gainer, up 19.05% month-on-month.
- 04
eua fell hardest, down 41.33% on the month.
- 05
S&P activity in 2026-Q3: 359 reported deals, fell 34.37% on the quarter.
- 06
Bulker led sale-&-purchase with 158 deals in 2026-Q3.
- 07
Congestion watch: Kumport had the longest queue with 13 vessels waiting.
- 08
Fleet supply: bulkers slow-steaming (speed index 0.802), 37% of tonnage idle.
Freight Indices
Week-on-week moves · published under our own generic names
Capesize
TC $45,651/day
Clean Tanker Index
Dirty Tanker Index
Dry Bulk Freight Index
Handysize
TC $15,834/day
Panamax
TC $20,213/day
Supramax
TC $20,765/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
- Natural gas (Europe)+19.1%
- Crude oil (Brent, spot)+9.1%
- Jet-kerosene (US Gulf Coast)+8.8%
- Wheat (US HRW)+8.4%
Decliners
- eua-41.3%
- Natural gas (US)-8.3%
- Coal (Australian)-4.8%
- Natural gas (Henry Hub, spot)-4.1%
Commodity prices are monthly; moves are month-over-month, not week-on-week.
Sale & Purchase
Latest quarter pulse
Deals · 2026-Q3
Disclosed value
Avg $/dwt
Most active
Dry Bulk
158 deals
$320/dwt
Other
110 deals
$621/dwt
Tankers
72 deals
$559/dwt
Containers
17 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
- Kumport130.5d
- Gegua Oil Terminal122.3d
- Port of Manila111.4d
- Al Arish110.5d
- Vila Do Conde103.7d
- Burrard Inlet103.3d
Ports ranked by vessels waiting on the latest snapshot.
Fleet Deployment
Slow-steaming index & idle tonnage · AIS-derived (The Maritime)
- Dry Bulkidx 0.8037% idle
- Containerslow confidx 0.6230% idle
- Gaslow confidx 0.8535% idle
- Otheridx 0.8343% idle
- Tankersidx 0.6844% 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 44 days
- 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.
- 26 Jul 2026
Dirty Tanker Index led freight, up 10.18% week-on-week.
- 25 Jul 2026
Dirty Tanker Index led freight, up 10.18% week-on-week.
- 24 Jul 2026
Dirty Tanker Index led freight, up 10.18% week-on-week.
- 23 Jul 2026
Dirty Tanker Index led freight, up 8.88% week-on-week.
- 22 Jul 2026
Clean Tanker Index led freight, up 3.41% week-on-week.
- 21 Jul 2026
Clean Tanker Index led freight, up 5.58% week-on-week.
- 20 Jul 2026
Clean Tanker Index led freight, up 7.31% week-on-week.
- 19 Jul 2026
Dirty Tanker Index led freight, up 10.83% week-on-week.
- 18 Jul 2026
Dirty Tanker Index led freight, up 10.83% week-on-week.
- 17 Jul 2026
Dirty Tanker Index led freight, up 10.1% week-on-week.
- 16 Jul 2026
Dirty Tanker Index led freight, up 7.23% week-on-week.
- 15 Jul 2026
Clean Tanker Index led freight, up 4.26% week-on-week.
- 14 Jul 2026
Clean Tanker Index led freight, up 7.63% week-on-week.
- 13 Jul 2026
Clean Tanker Index led freight, up 11.46% week-on-week.
- 12 Jul 2026
Capesize led freight, up 11.44% week-on-week.
- 11 Jul 2026
Capesize led freight, up 11.44% week-on-week.
- 05 Jul 2026
Capesize led freight, up 7.72% week-on-week.
- 23 Jun 2026
Capesize led freight, up 5.3% 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.