Lloyd’s List: Katrina Blows Hot for Aframax Rates

“Lloyd’s List based this article on Poten’s tanker opinion dated Sep. 9, 2005. “And the tanker broker Poten has estimated that the International Energy Agency’s offer of supplying the US with an additional 60m barrels of crude and products over the next 30 days could lift aframax demand by 3.8% in the short-term – less than for handysizes and suezmaxes but still welcome reading for owners with aframaxes in the region.” says the article.”