Daily Capesize Review 8/2/21

Capesize freight rates continued to slide downward on market inactivity with the absence of Chinese trade participants on holidays celebration. The Capesize 5 time charter average then dropped by $605 day-on-day to $12,057 on Monday, on thin market activities at the start of the week. The Baltic Dry Index (BDI) followed the downtrend and dipped …