INDIA, THE NEW ASIAN TIGER
India is destined to become a more significant driver of the tanker market. With an estimated 1,267,400,000 people, India has…
Market Still Has Questions About Panama Canal Expansion
18 Sep 2014: This month marks the 100 year anniversary of the Panama Canal which was opened to traffic…
CITGO: GOING GOING GONE?
A sale of PDVSA’s Citgo refining assets could dramatically change crude oil flows. According to various sources, Venezuelan state oil…
Déjà vu all over again?
Will the 2014/15 winter tanker market be a repeat of the previous one? As the regular US baseball season is…
To Asia with Love
Growing Caribbean exports to Asia create a tighter VLCC market in the US Gulf. Back in March 2001, a VLCC…
Mind the Gap!
Poten will start assessing TC rates for both ECO and non-ECO vessels. In 2011, as rising crude oil prices pushed…
Another Storage Play in the Bay?
Enter Tankers from Stage Left. During the last few days, various articles in the oil and shipping press have hinted…
Slip…N’ Slide into Better Times
Although the Caribbean market for Aframaxes has taken a precipitous tumble this week, other tanker segments have maintained healthy…
Dig, Dig, Dig Señora
While infrastructure projects, especially canals, bear a certain element of inherent skepticism, their impact on global trade flows should…
An Issue of Sulf-Deprecation
Throughout the past decade, the worldwide fuel de-sulfurization effort has permeated many industries, not the least of which is…
