Contracts

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The Contracts API endpoints are at the core of the Spark API: it provides price data for all the contracts that Spark prices, whether that be on Freight or Cargo, spot price or forward curves.

Contracts are released at the following times:

Contract	Price Release
Spark30S / Spark25S	10:00 GMT Daily
Spark25S-174-premium / Spark30S-174-premium	10:00 GMT Tuesday
Spark25Fo / Spark30Fo	10:00 GMT Tuesday
Spark25FFA / Spark30FFA	16:30 UKT Daily
SparkNWE-F	16:30 UKT Daily
SparkSWE-F	16:30 UKT Tuesday & Thursday
SparkNWE-DES-Fin-Monthly / Sparkswe-DES-Fin-Monthly	17:00 UKT Daily

Note on Price Releases

Prices may take longer to update. Please expect up to 1 hour after the Price Release to find the most updated release.

Below is a typical step-by-step process of accessing specific contract datasets.

Code Sample 🚀

For a step-by-step Python (Jupyter Notebook) example of accessing and formatting the Spark API historical price data, please visit our Github page.