Market context
China steel market snapshot
Three public indicators that move the cost of shipbuilding plate — domestic steel pricing, iron ore, and the dry-bulk freight that gets it to port — summarized here for context. This is not a live feed: it is a dated snapshot from public sources, refreshed manually, not the kind of thing to trade or price a contract against on its own.
Snapshot as of 2026-09-17. Figures are indicative, sourced from the public providers linked below, and will not update automatically — for a firm price on a specific order, request a quote.
China domestic steel (SHFE rebar benchmark)
¥3,121 / t
Up roughly 3% over the past month
The most widely quoted domestic proxy for Chinese steel pricing; plate pricing tracks it directionally but is not identical. Chinese mill associations have recently urged voluntary output curbs to work down inventory.
Source: Trading Economics62% Fe iron ore, CFR China
US$100 / t
Trading in a roughly US$93–100/t band since June
The main input cost for steelmaking; softer Chinese mill output has kept the benchmark range-bound rather than trending sharply in either direction.
Source: Trading EconomicsBaltic Dry Index (dry-bulk freight)
~3,620 pts
Up sharply this year, near a multi-year high
Tracks capesize/panamax/supramax dry-bulk charter rates — not container rates, but the best public proxy for how expensive bulk ocean freight has become, relevant to landed cost on large-tonnage orders.
Source: Baltic ExchangeThese figures are general market context, not a price quotation, and are not investment or trading advice. They are pulled from public data providers at a point in time and may already have moved by the time you are reading this — always confirm current pricing directly.
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