The time-charter equivalent (TCE) of a voyage is its freight revenue less its voyage costs, divided by its duration in days: the daily hire at which a time charter would earn the owner the same.
Ejemplos
Example 11.3 (From a voyage to a daily rate)
A bulk carrier carries 170 000 tonnes of iron ore at $12.00 a tonne: freight of $2.04 million. Fuel costs $600 000 and port charges $150 000, and the round voyage takes 45 days. Its TCE is a day.