{
  "id": 13800372,
  "title": "VLCCs Climbing the Record Charts",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/11/vlccs-climbing-the-record-charts",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-10-11T21:00:56.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Hellenic Shipping News",
    "slug": "hellenic-shipping-news",
    "url": "https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/vlccs-climbing-the-record-charts/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "VLCC rates for the Baltic assessed routes continued to climb this week, with TD3C (270,000mt Middle East Gulf to China) climbing 115 points to WS1,318.75, giving a daily round-trip TCE of $1,412,594 for the standard Baltic VLCC. TD34 (Gulf of Oman/China) rose 62.5 points to WS841.07, giving a round-trip TCE of $912,660/day. In the Atlantic market, the rate for the 260,000mt West Africa to China route (TD15) improved by 111 points to WS750.63, giving a round-trip TCE of $763,031/day, while the US Gulf to China route (TD22) surged by a further $24.8 million to $79,611,111, which gives a daily round-trip TCE of $637,675.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}