1. Steel Freight Analyser Routes
Location: Backend / Data Entry / Freight Rates
We merged south and northern Europe in the Freight Routes drop down menu.
Steel Freight Routes
*This is the new list of routes that should appear
in the Freight Routes drop down menu
Europe – China
Europe - USA
Europe - Black Sea
Europe – Arabian Gulf
China – Europe
China - US
US – Europe
Turkey - Arabian Gulf
Also known in the Backend / Data Entry / Freight
Rates as: (see below)
Europe – China
Europe – USA
Europe – Black Sea / Eastern Mediterranean
(Turkey)
Europe - Arabian Gulf
China - Europe
China - USA
USA – Europe
Eastern Mediterranean (Turkey) - Arabian Gulf
2. Products list (Steel Freight Analyser)
* Because the freight rate for South and Northern Europe is the same we have merged
them into these FREIGHT ROUTES (above), however we separate South and Northern
Europe in the PRODUCT drop down menu in order to calculate the arbitration rate.
Once a route is selected the available products within this route (if any) will appear on the Products
List Drop Down menu
Location: Backend / Data Entry / Steel Index Data Entry
Europe – China
When route Europe – China is selected the system doesn’t display any products in
the drop down menu. Just display latest freight rate within this route.
Europe - USA
When route Europe – USA is selected the system display the products in left column below. Right Column is the
name as it appears in the backend/ Data Entry / The Steel Index Data Series.
* Remember we need to convert all these values into US$ before calculating the Arbitration
rate.
HRC (Southern Europe USA)
CRC (Southern Europe USA)
HD Galv (Southern
Europe - USA)
Plate (Southern Europe USA)
Rebar (Northern Europe
- USA)
HRC (Northern Europe USA)
CRC (Northern Europe USA)
HD Galv (Northern
Europe - USA)
Plate (Northern Europe USA)
Rebar (Northern Europe
- USA)
FLAT product HRC - S.Europe €/tonne - FLAT product HRC - USA US$/s.ton
FLAT product CRC - S.Europe €/tonne - FLAT product CRC - USA US$/s.ton
FLAT product HD Galv - S.Europe €/tonne - FLAT product HD Galv - USA US$/s.ton
FLAT product Plate - S.Europe €/tonne - FLAT product Plate - USA US$/s.ton
LONG product Rebar - S.Europe €/tonne - LONG product Rebar - USA US$/s.ton
FLAT product HRC - N.Europe €/tonne – FLAT product HRC - USA US$/s.ton
FLAT product CRC - N.Europe €/tonne - FLAT product CRC - USA US$/s.ton
FLAT product HD Galv - N.Europe €/tonne - FLAT product HD Galv - USA US$/s.ton
product Plate - N.Europe €/tonne - FLAT product Plate - USA US$/s.ton
LONG product Rebar - N.Europe €/tonne - LONG product Rebar – USA US$/ton
Europe – Black Sea
When route Europe –Black Sea is selected the system display the products in left column below. Right Column
is the name as it appears in the backend/ Data Entry / The Steel Index Data Series
HRC (Southern
Europe – Black Sea)
CRC (Southern
Europe – Black Sea)
HD GALV (Southern
Europe – Black Sea)
Plate (Southern
Europe – Black Sea)
Rebar (Southern
Europe – Black Sea)
HRC (Northern
Europe – Black Sea)
CRC (Northern
Europe – Black Sea)
HD GALV (Northern
Europe – Black Sea)
Plate (Northern
Europe – Black Sea)
Rebar (Northern
Europe – Black Sea)
FLAT product HRC - S.Europe €/tonne – FLAT product HRC - Turkey US$/ton
FLAT product CRC - S.Europe €/tonne – FLAT product CRC - Turkey US$/ton
FLAT product HDG - S.Europe €/tonne – FLAT product HD Galv - Turkey US$/ton
FLAT product Plate - S.Europe €/tonne – FLAT product Plate - Turkey US$/ton
LONG product Rebar - S.Europe €/tonne - LONG product Rebar - Turkey US$/ton
FLAT product HRC - N.Europe €/tonne – FLAT product HRC - Turkey US$/ton
FLAT product CRC - N.Europe €/tonne – FLAT product CRC - Turkey US$/ton
FLAT product HD Galv - N.Europe €/tonne – FLAT product HD Galv - Turkey US$/ton
FLAT product Plate - N.Europe €/tonne – FLAT product Plate - Turkey US$/ton
LONG product Rebar - N.Europe €/tonne - LONG product Rebar - Turkey US$/ton
Europe –Arabian Gulf
When route Europe – Arabian Gulf is selected the system doesn’t display any
products in the drop down menu. Just display latest freight rate within this route.
China - Europe
When route China- Europe is selected the system display the products in left column below. Right Column is
the name as it appears in the backend/ Data Entry / The Steel Index Data Series
HRC (China – Southern
Europe)
CRC (China – Southern
Europe)
Plate (China – Southern
Europe)
HRC (China – Northern
Europe)
CRC (China – Northern
Europe)
Plate (China – Northern
Europe)
FLAT product HRC - Chinese Exports to Europe or North America US$/tonne - FLAT product
HRC - S.Europe €/tonne
FLAT product CRC - Chinese Exports to Europe or North America US$/tonne - FLAT product
CRC - S.Europe €/tonne
FLAT product Plate - Chinese Exports to Europe or North America US$/tonne - FLAT product
Plate - S.Europe €/tonne
FLAT product HRC - Chinese Exports to Europe or North America US$/tonne - FLAT product
HRC - S.Europe €/tonne
FLAT product CRC - Chinese Exports to Europe or North America US$/tonne - FLAT product
CRC - S.Europe €/tonne
FLAT product Plate - Chinese Exports to Europe or North America US$/tonne - FLAT product
Plate - S.Europe €/tonne
China – USA
When route China – USA is selected the system display the products in left column below. Right Column is the
name as it appears in the backend/ Data Entry / The Steel Index Data Series
HRC (China - USA)
CRC (China - USA)
Plate (China - USA)
FLAT product HRC - Chinese Exports to Europe or North America US$/tonne - FLAT product
HRC - S.Europe €/tonne
FLAT product CRC - Chinese Exports to Europe or North America US$/tonne - FLAT product
CRC - S.Europe €/tonne
FLAT product Plate - Chinese Exports to Europe or North America US$/tonne - FLAT product
Plate - S.Europe €/tonne
USA – Europe
When route USA - Europe is selected the system display the products in left column below. Right Column is the
name as it appears in the backend/ Data Entry / The Steel Index Data Series
HRC (USA - Southern
Europe)
CRC (USA - Southern
Europe)
HDG (USA - Southern
Europe)
Plate (USA - Southern
Europe)
Rebar (USA - Southern
Europe)
HRC (USA -Northern
Europe)
CRC (USA -Northern
Europe)
HDG (USA -Northern
Europe)
Plate (USA -Northern
Europe)
Rebar (USA -Northern
Europe)
FLAT product HRC - USA US$/s.ton - FLAT product HRC - S.Europe €/tonne
FLAT product CRC - USA US$/s.ton - FLAT product CRC - S.Europe €/tonne
FLAT product HD Galv - USA US$/s.ton - FLAT product HD Galv - S.Europe €/tonne
FLAT product Plate - USA US$/s.ton - FLAT product Plate - S.Europe €/tonne
LONG product Rebar - USA US$/s.ton - LONG product Rebar - S.Europe €/tonne
FLAT product HRC - USA US$/s.ton - FLAT product HRC - N.Europe €/tonne
FLAT product CRC - USA US$/s.ton - FLAT product CRC - N.Europe €/tonne
FLAT product HD Galv - USA US$/s.ton - FLAT product HD Galv - N.Europe €/tonne
FLAT product Plate - USA US$/s.ton - FLAT product Plate - N.Europe €/tonne
LONG product Rebar - USA US$/s.ton - LONG product Rebar - N.Europe €/tonne
Turkey –Arabian Gulf
When route Turkey – Arabian Gulf is selected the system doesn’t display any
products in the drop down menu. Just display latest freight rate within this route.
2.1
Products list summary
* If we select the route From: EUROPE – To: USA in the Freight Routes menu, the system
should display the following in the Product menu (see image below). Once a product is
selected the Arbitration Rate is calculated immediately.
*Remember we have selected specific products for each regions (please see more information in
point 4.)
Also Could we find a way to remove or hide the titles “Please Select” and “Select Seria” when the
drop down menu is expanded.
3. Iron Ore Freight Analyser Routes
We haven’t changed anything in this section. It’s displaying the latest Freight Rate and everything
seems to be working fine so far
Brazil - China
India East Coast –
China
Brazil - Europe
W. Australia – China
India West Coast – China
4. Back End
The system should display the latest values entered in Data Entry/ Freight Rates.
In the example below, if the user wants to see the Freight Rate for the route Europe-China / Date
31/05/2010 the system should display the results for 28/05/2010 as this is the latest value entered.
It should display this date in the map too.
4.1
Back End, Selecting Products
Because we don’t want to show all the products available within some of the regions we will need to
specify this in the section below.
This is currently the case of the route Europe – USA : the Product drop down menu is currently
showing this below (but we don’t want to show Billet-rebar spread for example)
Also the names we use in the Products list should be written as below . *Remember we are taking
the data from The Steel Index Data Entry where south and northern Europe are divided to calculate
the arbitration rate of each product.
Freight Route: Europe - USA
Products:
HRC (Southern Europe USA)
CRC (Southern Europe USA)
HD Galv (Southern
Europe - USA)
Plate (Southern Europe USA)
Rebar (Northern Europe
- USA)
HRC (Northern Europe USA)
CRC (Northern Europe USA)
HD Galv (Northern
Europe - USA)
Plate (Northern Europe USA)
Rebar (Northern Europe
- USA)
FLAT product HRC - S.Europe €/tonne - FLAT product HRC - USA US$/s.ton
FLAT product CRC - S.Europe €/tonne - FLAT product CRC - USA US$/s.ton
FLAT product HD Galv - S.Europe €/tonne - FLAT product HD Galv - USA US$/s.ton
FLAT product Plate - S.Europe €/tonne - FLAT product Plate - USA US$/s.ton
LONG product Rebar - S.Europe €/tonne - LONG product Rebar - USA US$/s.ton
FLAT product HRC - N.Europe €/tonne – FLAT product HRC - USA US$/s.ton
FLAT product CRC - N.Europe €/tonne - FLAT product CRC - USA US$/s.ton
FLAT product HD Galv - N.Europe €/tonne - FLAT product HD Galv - USA US$/s.ton
product Plate - N.Europe €/tonne - FLAT product Plate - USA US$/s.ton
LONG product Rebar - N.Europe €/tonne - LONG product Rebar – USA US$/ton
As we need to tell the system what products should be displayed in the Products drop down menu
when a route like Europe –USA is selected, we think the Indexes Edit (below) could display a field
where we can specify if the products should be shown in Freight Analyser Map. We also need
another field to display the name we’re giving them in the Freight Analyser Map, so we can rename
them from FLAT product HRC - USA US$/s.ton - FLAT product HRC - S.Europe €/tonne To HRC (USA – Southern Europe)
for example.
4.3
Back End, Questions
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I have set up all the routes for Iron Ore and Steel and I don’t understand what the Origin
Seria and Destination Seria are used for? Where are you taking this data from? Do we need
it?
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Also can we change the red ball that appears in the origin location in the map? I’ll send you a
graphic tomorrow.
Could you please remove the blue graphic (waves) next to the results of the Freight rate in
the map?
It’s a bit difficult to see the label when I hover over the destination and origin title in the
map, could we fix this please, so the label can appear when the user hovers for example, the
whole country of United States rather than the title USA.
We also need to change the zoom coordinate for each of the routes.
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