Tanker Opinions

22 Feb 2019 : Crude oil exports from the U.S. Gulf continue to increase as tight oil production grows.  The…

15 Feb 2019: Over the last 10-15 years the focus in world oil markets has been on Asian demand in…

The African oil industry has…

1 Feb 2019; 

For many years the product flows in the Atlantic Basin were fairly predictable.  The United States produced…

25 Jan 2019; 

On Wednesday, Mr. Juan Guaido, the head of the country’s National Assembly, declared himself interim president of…

18 Jan 2019; 

The new Mexican president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) was inaugurated on December 1^st 2018.  He vowed…

11 Jan 2019; The news from China has been mostly negative in recent weeks. One report after another seems to…

In the latest ranking of the largest dirty spot charterers we observe some small changes.  Not at the top,…

14 December 2018: One of the challenges in the container shipping industry is the need to reposition empty containers (“empties”)…