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U.S. railroads originated 284,562 carloads, down 0.1% compared with the same week in 2010 and down 4.5% compared with 5-year average. Week over week change was -3.3%.

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Baltic Dirty Tanker Index fell 1.1%; Baltic Clean Tanker Index fell 5.7%.

Oversupply.

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Baltic dry index fell 0.1% last week; Capesize Index was up 3.6%; Panamax Index fell 9.9%; Supramax Index was down 1.2%; Handysize Index fell 1.2%.

Large increase in coal stockpiles, no major changes in other categories.

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