Baltic Dry Index Hovers Around 4-Month Highs in Dry Bulk Market,International Shipping News 24/04/2026 The Baltic Exchange’s dry bulk freight index, which monitors rates for ships carrying dry bulk commodities, edged down by 0.1% to 2,673 points on Thursday, ending a 14-day rally, but still near a more than four-month high. The capesize index, which typically transports 150,000-ton cargoes including iron ore and coal, decreased by 0.9% to 4,315 points; and the panamax index, which usually carries 60,000 to 70,000 tons of coal or grain, fell 0.3% to 1,965 points. Among smaller vessels, the supramax index climbed 2.6% to its highest since early December 2023 at 1,522 points. Source: Trading Economics 2026-04-24 hellenicshippingnews... window.___gcfg = {lang: 'en-US'}; (function(w, d, s) { function go(){ var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0], load = function(url, id) { if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;} js = d.createElement(s); js.src = url; js.id = id; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }; load('//connect.facebook.net/en/all.js#xfbml=1', 'fbjssdk'); load('https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js', 'gplus1js'); load('//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js', 'tweetjs'); } if (w.addEventListener) { w.addEventListener("load", go, false); } else if (w.attachEvent) { w.attachEvent("onload",go); } }(window, document, 'script')); tweet Share