Industry Opinions

8 Mar 2019: As an illustration of the severe problems that Venezuela is facing, the country experienced a widespread…

1 March 2019: The tanker market is at somewhat of a crossroads:  Trade flows are changing due to rapidly…

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,…