Shipbrokers say the 160,000-dwt Nordic Apollo (built 2003) secured a $2.5m contract to transport crude from West Africa to Mangalore in a fixture backed by ST Shipping.
The same sources linked the 151,500-dwt Nordic Hawk (built 1997) to a $2.75m deal with Dreyfus, which is bankrolling a trip from the Caribbean to Singapore.
Today, VLCCs, suezmaxes, aframaxes, panamaxes, handies, long-range twos, long-range ones and medium-ranges (MRs) were seeing day rate averages of around $6,339, $6,209, $10,273, $7,916, $19,914, $9,322, $3,669 and $16,667, respectively, in the spot market.
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