Top Dirty Tanker Routes in 2015

7 Aug 2015: What are the busiest dirty spot trade routes so far this year? For many years Poten has kept track of and reported on the largest dirty spot charterers (see “Who’s on First?”, January 9, 2015) based on reported spot fixtures. We thought it would be interesting to use the same data to rank the busiest dirty tanker routes worldwide. We will compare the data of the first 7 months of 2015 with the same period of last year. As with the top charterer ranking, it is important to keep in mind that Poten & Partners uses reported spot fixtures for this analysis and the actual cargo movements are significantly higher. It should also be noted that the use of private cargoes and charterer controlled tonnage is more prevalent on certain routes than on others. However, despite all these caveats, we feel that this ranking and especially how it develops over time gives a good indication of how crude oil trade flows are changing worldwide (or not). Download here