Will History Repeat Itself?
15 Mar 2019: Erling Naess, an iconic Norwegian shipowner observed in the 1970s: “God must have been a shipowner;…
Lights Dimming For Venezuela
8 Mar 2019: As an illustration of the severe problems that Venezuela is facing, the country experienced a widespread…
Decisions, Decisions …
1 March 2019: The tanker market is at somewhat of a crossroads: Trade flows are changing due to rapidly…
LPG in World Markets: US Regains Market Share in Northwest Europe in 2018
LPG in World Markets
February 2019
After a sharp drop in LPG imports by Northwest Europe in 2017, VLGC/LGC imports surged…
Super-Size Me
22 Feb 2019 : Crude oil exports from the U.S. Gulf continue to increase as tight oil production grows. The…
Down But Not Out
15 Feb 2019: Over the last 10-15 years the focus in world oil markets has been on Asian demand in…
Fuel Fight
1 Feb 2019;
For many years the product flows in the Atlantic Basin were fairly predictable. The United States produced…
Face-off in Venezuela
25 Jan 2019;
On Wednesday, Mr. Juan Guaido, the head of the country’s National Assembly, declared himself interim president of…
Running Out Of Gas (and Diesel)
18 Jan 2019;
The new Mexican president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) was inaugurated on December 1st 2018. He vowed…