Lloyd’s List: Smaller Product Tankers See Spot Chartering Drop In 2008
“The number of clean spot market fixtures for product tankers dropped to 4,913 last year, down from 5,574 in…
Bunkerworld: Scarcity Of Low-Sulphur Fuel Predicted
“Publication predicts bunker fuel demand will grow by 9%. Demand for low sulphur product as a result of impending…
Fairplay: Behind Oil Market’s Jitters
“Fairplay reported on the recent fall in crude prices and the continuing uncertainty associated with the the Russia-Ukraine gas…
Tradewinds: Shell Stays Top
“Shell has hung onto its crown as the largest spot charterer of oil tankers. It fought off competition from…
Bloomberg: Shell Keeps Top Ranking as Hirer of Crude-Oil Tankers
“Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Europe’s largest oil company, maintained its ranking as the largest hirer of tankers in the…
Lloyds List: Oil Giants Top Dirty Tanker Charter Table
“Shell, ExxonMobil and BP remained the world’s largest charterers of dirty tankers in 2008, responsible for 17% of all…
Tankerworld: Unipec Pips Exxonmobil as Top Spot Charterer
“‘Overall reported VLCC spot market activity is down 8% from 2007”. . . For the suezmax class, despite a…
Bloomberg TV: Storing Oil at Sea
“Jeff Goetz of Poten & Partners was interviewed by Bloomberg TV regarding the contango market in crude oil and…
Fairplay Shipping News: Tanker Spot Charterers Ranked
“OIL MAJORS maintained their dominance of spot tanker fixtures in 2008, although some national companies jumped in the ranks,…
Oil & Gas Journal: Analyst Notes Changing Global, Chinese LPG Trade Patterns
“Demand patterns for global LPG trade will change in the near term, according to New York-based Poten & Partners,…
