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ARA barge freight rates moved two ways during the week of early November, with middle distillate rates swinging up and down within a narrow range and light ends leaning lower. Terminal delays and a split between small and large barges shaped the pattern.
Trading volume stayed high, but operators lacked free ships to meet requests.
The ARA barge market mainly reflects petroleum product freight, with little direct impact on grain and feed prices. Soft light-end rates suggest ample barge capacity in the Netherlands and Belgium.
tankterminals.comNov 12, 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.
