TradeWinds: Poten: Unipec tops dirty charter league

6 January 2016: “Unipec held on to the top slot in both spot crude fixtures and cargo volumes last year, Poten & Partners says in its weekly tanker opinion. Poten counted overall spot fixtures of 10,264 in 2016, a 2% gain relative to 2015. The vast majority of those fixtures were for very large crude carriers with Unipec fixing some 524 ships last year. Poten analyst Erik Broekhuizen noted that was the same amount as the next five largest VLCC charterers combined.” To read the full article, click here.