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The Baltic Dry Index rose 2.5% to 3,186 on Friday, extending its winning streak to seven sessions and reaching its highest level since June 2. The capesize, panamax and supramax segments all gained, with capesize up 3.9% for the week's seventh day.
The benchmark rose 12.1% over the week.
Higher dry bulk freight rates raise the delivered cost of grain and feed ingredients imported into major markets, which can narrow the gap between FOB and landed prices. The article gives no new cause for the rally, so the signal is mainly a cost-side one.
tradingeconomics.comLuisa CarvalhoAug 28, 2026Not enough comparable past events yet for a historical read.
Moves of each commodity's benchmark from the last close before the event. Historical reads pool past events of the same kind; they describe what happened, not what will. Not investment advice.
