No More Fueling Around
When the Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) discusses options for regulating marine emissions…
Tanker Opinions
O PEC-ing Away
When the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) meets next week in Vienna, they will help formulate a consensus…
Kuwait Bucks Peak Oil
The combined effect of a weaker oil price environment and the overall decline in worldwide oil consumption has created…
China’s Bright Horizon
China’s growing reliance on seabourne crude oil imports will set the tone of the tanker market for the coming…
The Storage Story
Use of tankers as floating storage has seemed to consistently capture the attention of those in the tanker and…
Cleaning Upwards for a Decade
At the turn of the millennium, India’s crude oil refinery capacity stood at…
In Like A Tiger…
In the opening of 2010, the freight market has acted like a tiger…
Clean Sweepers: 2009’s Top Clean Charterers
Reported spot fixture activity in 2009 for clean petroleum products picked up noticeably…
Holy 2010!
Just when it seemed like the tanker market was poised to hobble along for another year, reported spot market…
The Down and Dirty: 2009’s Top Charterers
With refinery utilizations low and volumes on long-haul trade routes sapped by a 2 million barrel per day drop…
The Roaring 00’s
As a painful year draws to a close, it is worth remembering that the end of 2009 also caps…
Stocking Slippage
This time last year, the tanker market found itself partially insulated from the pressures being felt in other shipping…
