Glass Half-Full Or Half-Empty?
05 Aug 2016: The tanker market has been suffering from rather severe summer doldrums. Earnings across all tanker sectors,…
Oil on the Move
29 Jul 2016: Quite a lot has happened over the last 12-18 months: North American crude oil production has…
Orient Express
22 Jul 2016: Last weekend, the world witnessed a failed coup attempt in Turkey. While this event was going…
Slippery Orders
15 Jun 2016: The situation of the shipyards in the world and in particular the struggles of the Korean…
Halftime Report
8 Jul 2016: It is that time of the year again. We just passed the mid-year point for 2016…
Out of Sync
1 Jul 2016: Some days ago we received a request to look into the relationship between tanker rates and…
Tankers Br(exit) Strategy
24 Jun 2016: On a lazy summer day (in New York at least), the world woke up to the…
Summer Doldrums
6 Jun 2016: Are tankers facing a typical seasonal summer lull?
It is well known that tanker rates, both for…
(Re) Balancing Act
10 Jun 2016: Are we at the beginning of the long-expected market rebalancing?
The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) came…
The Chinese Tea Party
03 Jun 2016: China has been the primary growth area for oil as well as for tankers over the…