Baltic Exchange ‘clarifies’ shipping indices to reflect post-2020 marine fuels change
There had been calls from some in the financial markets in recent months for a specific reference to scrubbers in the benchmark shipping indices provided by the Baltic Exchange, particularly with the indices for bigger ships in the dry bulk segment, which they saw as more likely to install scrubbers
The Baltic Exchange has opted to keep its benchmark shipping indices unchanged, despite calls from some market players for the data provider to include data about scrubbers on ships