Laboring Through A Long Recovery
The Memorial Day kickoff to the summer driving season offered hope that 2010 would see a step towards normalization…
Tanker Opinions
Summer Doldrums
Recent weeks have seen earnings on benchmark tanker voyages threaten to break below operating costs amid an oversupply of…
Crude Oil More a Torium
With the Macondo well successfully capped and the cleanup operation in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico moving into its…
Brazil Scores Again
Brazil’s rapidly-expanding economy has earned it a place among the developing world’s economic powerhouses, but it is the country’s…
Driving Global Commerce
Last month, the International Energy Agency (IEA) announced that in 2009, China surpassed the United States to become the…
The Asset Game
One can’t help but notice a disconnect between slipping freight rates, weak demand fundamentals and the surge of newbuilding…
Making Virtual A Reality
Facing a likely future of tightened environmental regulation and rising marine fuel costs, efforts are underway to standardize efficiency…
Sanctions Gain Teeth
With the enactment of a new U.S. sanctions regime earlier this month, the tanker industry has once again found…
Unwinding Subsidies
Alongside China, India has emerged as an important driver of many of the trends expected to determine the direction…
Harbinger Wind
After threatening to follow a path that some projections showed would send it through the heart of the U.S….
Public Displays
As difficult as it was to see the light just a year ago, optimism in the tanker market has…
