Halftime Report

8 Jul 2016: It is that time of the year again. We just passed the mid-year point for 2016 and we have taken stock of the spot market activity in the dirty tanker market to see if there are any significant movements in the rankings of the top charterers relative to full-year 2015. Spoiler alert! Nothing (much) has changed. The top seven charterers are exactly the same as last year. Unipec is still on top and even expanded its lead slightly (from 13.4% of the total in 2015 to 13.8% in 2016 YTD). Not surprisingly, the leading charterers hail from China (Unipec, Petrochina), India (IOC, Reliance), complemented by the super-majors and the leading traders. As a reminder, these rankings are all based on reported spot fixtures. Download Here