Lloyd’s List: Aframaxes in the Med Hit Staggering Earnings of $85,300 per day.

“Looking at the bigger picture, limited fleet growth has been a key factor in the tanker market’s gradual recovery, according to US broker and consultancy Poten & Partners. The aframax fleet has actually declined to 877 vessels from 889 this time last year, Poten’s data showed in a recent report. ‘It looks as though the trend of 2014 may continue into 2015,’ forecast Poten’s analysts. Based on these vessel supply developments, ‘the outlook appears to be most encouraging for the medium-sized (crude) tankers’, they added.”