The Maritime
Dry Bulk Freight Index3,056▲ +4.4%Capesize5,033▲ +6.3%Dirty Tanker Index2,801▼ -0.1%Panamax2,246▲ +3.7%Supramax1,643▲ +0.1%Clean Tanker Index1,353▲ +0.0%Handysize880▲ +0.3%Dry Bulk Freight Index3,056▲ +4.4%Capesize5,033▲ +6.3%Dirty Tanker Index2,801▼ -0.1%Panamax2,246▲ +3.7%Supramax1,643▲ +0.1%Clean Tanker Index1,353▲ +0.0%Handysize880▲ +0.3%Dry Bulk Freight Index3,056▲ +4.4%Capesize5,033▲ +6.3%Dirty Tanker Index2,801▼ -0.1%Panamax2,246▲ +3.7%Supramax1,643▲ +0.1%Clean Tanker Index1,353▲ +0.0%Handysize880▲ +0.3%Dry Bulk Freight Index3,056▲ +4.4%Capesize5,033▲ +6.3%Dirty Tanker Index2,801▼ -0.1%Panamax2,246▲ +3.7%Supramax1,643▲ +0.1%Clean Tanker Index1,353▲ +0.0%Handysize880▲ +0.3%Dry Bulk Freight Index3,056▲ +4.4%Capesize5,033▲ +6.3%Dirty Tanker Index2,801▼ -0.1%Panamax2,246▲ +3.7%Supramax1,643▲ +0.1%Clean Tanker Index1,353▲ +0.0%Handysize880▲ +0.3%Dry Bulk Freight Index3,056▲ +4.4%Capesize5,033▲ +6.3%Dirty Tanker Index2,801▼ -0.1%Panamax2,246▲ +3.7%Supramax1,643▲ +0.1%Clean Tanker Index1,353▲ +0.0%Handysize880▲ +0.3%
Freight & charter · Tanker

Suezmax

One-million-barrel Atlantic and Med crude

All freight indices

Median realised TCE

$105k$/day

30 Jun 2026

What this benchmark measures — Time-charter benchmark for Suezmax crude tankers (~125,000–200,000 dwt) — the one-million-barrel class that dominates West Africa–Europe, Black Sea and Trans-Atlantic crude runs.

Quarter over quarter

+61.1%

Year to date

+61.1%

Year over year

+218.8%

5-year

+853.2%

Realised TCE · reconstructed monthly

Suezmax — realised time-charter earnings

Q1 2008 – Q2 2026

Real quarterly $/day from listed shipowners’ own earnings filings (the marked anchors), with a monthly path reconstructed between them from licence-clean freight, activity and commodity indicators. The reconstruction averages back to each real quarter exactly; the shaded band is its interpolation uncertainty. A model estimate, not a market index — independent of any licensed benchmark.

Anchors: realised TCE disclosed in public shipowners’ SEC filings (facts, cross-owner median per quarter). Monthly path: Chow-Lin reconstruction from licence-clean indicators — a model estimate, not a licensed index.

Reported fixtures

Latest Suezmax fixtures

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  • 130,000 mtWS 32524 Aug
  • Performance Shipping Suezmax newbuilding #1 (158,000 dwt; Repsol charter)$35,000/day· Repsol Trading S.A.16 Apr
  • Performance Shipping Suezmax newbuilding #2 (158,000 dwt; Repsol charter)$36,850/day· Repsol Trading S.A.16 Apr
  • Eco Oceano$30,000/day· Central Tankers Chartering Inc.6 Jan
  • WS 132.522 Dec
  • Sea SapphireWS 77.5· Shell27 Jul
  • MT ValfogliWS 240· CSSSA28 Mar
  • MT BrilliantWS 63.75· Sinochem28 Mar
  • WS 92.519 Mar
  • MT Stena SurpriseWS 90· CSSA16 Feb

How this benchmark is computed

The median reported time-charter rate ($/day) across the charter fixtures our own pipeline collects for the Suezmax class, using only those reported in the last 90 days so the figure reflects the current market. Snapshotted each ingest cycle; a segment with fewer than two recent fixtures is withheld rather than published on a thin sample. Data we collect ourselves — no third-party licence — so we publish it in full alongside the reported fixtures behind it.