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Dry bulk ships generating 300%-plus more revenue today than 6 months ago
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The effects of COVID-19 on international shipping are still actively unfolding — but not only at the West Coast ports where there is a “parking lot” of containerized cargo ships waiting in droves. While container rates have spiked after growing demand in the second half of 2020, causing labor and vessel shortages to ensue, so have freight rates across the entire industry, including those for raw commodities.
Before COVID-19, ships hauling dry bulk — like iron ore, coal and grain — were making somewhere between $7,000 and $10,000 per day. Today, those same ships are making $30,000 a day, three times what they were making just six months ago. The raw commodity market is red hot following a period of pent-up demand.
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