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THE AEGEAN REGISTER / AIG-SCL-26-003AIG-SCL-26-003 · PUBLIC RELEASE · 2026
ReportAIG-SCL-26-003Supply Chain & LogisticsCreated 2026-09-14Updated 2026-09-14Standard: AEGEAN-OS v1.3
SUPPLY CHAIN & LOGISTICS · PUBLISHABLE MARKET RESEARCH · CURRENT

$700,000 a Day

The Hormuz tanker bubble, the price of the strait, and the asymmetric payoff of a corridor deal

The freight market is priced for a war that continues and is not priced for a deal that arrives, and the June 2026 episode has already measured the size of the repricing.

THE DOCUMENT
NumberAIG-SCL-26-003
ProductPMR-2026-0914-MEAST-001
Issued2026-09-14
Pages28
DistributionPublic release
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Aegean Intelligence Group, “$700,000 a Day,” AIG-SCL-26-003, The Aegean Register, 14 September 2026.

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FORWARD CLAIMS · DATED TO PUBLICATION · SCORED ON THE SCORECARD →
IDStatementpMade onResolves byStatusOutcome
CLM-2026-287The Baltic Exchange TD3C round-trip time charter equivalent for the 270,000 mt Middle East Gulf to China route, as published in the Baltic Exchange weekly tanker report dated 9 October 2026, will be $690,000 per day, within an interval of $320,000 to $1,020,000 per day.320000 to 1.02e+06 US dollars per day, round-trip time charter equivalent for the standard Baltic VLCC
(central 690000)
2026-09-142026-10-09Locked
CLM-2026-288Conditional on the governments of the United States and Iran both publicly announcing an agreement covering the Strait of Hormuz on or before 15 November 2026, the first Baltic Exchange TD3C round-trip time charter equivalent assessment published on or after the fourteenth day following that announcement will be at least 25 percent below the last Baltic Exchange TD3C round-trip time charter equivalent assessment published before the announcement date.0.852026-09-142026-12-15Locked

A claim is entered in the brief's own words and carries its publication date and the day it entered the ledger: the register's briefs on 8 September 2026, when the standard was first applied; the forward benchmark on the day it was locked. It resolves only against a dated public source. The scoring rule is on the Methodology page.

THE CENTRAL JUDGMENT
KEY JUDGMENTS
Bottom line

The freight market is priced for a war that continues and is not priced for a deal that arrives, and the June 2026 episode has already measured the size of the repricing.

01The highest TD3C assessment in the collected 2026 file is 4 September, not March, and the level was reached without a pause.ASSESSMENT
02The market's benchmarks have come apart, and a freight mark without a named publisher is an unusable number.ASSESSMENT
03TD3C minus TD34 is the best public proxy for the price of the Strait of Hormuz and is this brief's primary instrument.ASSESSMENT
SOURCES AND LIMITS

The complete source registry, limits, methodology and binding forecast definitions are preserved in the downloadable report. Each forecast is locked before publication to a named public resolution source.

28 PAGES2 FORWARD CLAIMSTIMELINESS: CURRENT

The evidence tiers, confidence bands, forward-claim rule and corrections record are public on the Methodology page.

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