Disruption to China’s commodity imports, owing to the outbreak of coronavirus, has sent the Baltic Dry Index into freefall. While freight rates should recover as and when China’s industrial activity picks up, our forecast of lacklustre demand for iron ore and coal suggests that they could remain fairly low.
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