Fairplay: The ‘what if’ Section

“Fairplay cited Poten research in this article on shipping markets. “Poten, working with IEA numbers, suggests that US gasoline imports rose 16.5% to 1.2M bpd after the storm onslaughts, and that diesel fuel imports were up 8.8% to 0.245M bpd. Jet fuel imports were up 114%, but to a smaller absolute number of 0.169M bpd. After Katrina, Poten suggested that extra cargo demand (in the North Atlantic region, in Handy sizes) would be on the order of five extra cargoes per week – numbers right on the money.” says the article.”