Coal prices & dry bulk freight snapshot
Benchmarks below come from Bench Energy's market data pipeline (local cache or seed file on this deploy). For narrative and intraday context, use daily bulk commodity news.
As of February 1, 2025 (illustrative seed — production uses live collector)
Coal benchmarks
- newcastle fob 6000: $118–125/t
- api2 cif ara: $105–112/t
- richards bay fob 5500: $95–102/t
Freight indicators
- bdi: 1150 (-25 pts)
- capesize tce: $18,500–22,000/day
- panamax tce: $12,000–14,500/day
Route-level freight
Fixture economics vary by corridor — see dry bulk freight routes and coal freight tendering.