Industry Opinions

05 Aug 2016: The tanker market has been suffering from rather severe summer doldrums. Earnings across all tanker sectors,…

22 Jul 2016: Last weekend, the world witnessed a failed coup attempt in Turkey. While this event was going…

15 Jun 2016:  The situation of the shipyards in the world and in particular the struggles of the Korean…

8 Jul 2016: It is that time of the year again. We just passed the mid-year point for 2016…

1 Jul 2016:  Some days ago we received a request to look into the relationship between tanker rates and…

24 Jun 2016:  On a lazy summer day (in New York at least), the world woke up to the…

6 Jun 2016:  Are tankers facing a typical seasonal summer lull? It is well known that tanker rates, both for…

10 Jun 2016: Are we at the beginning of the long-expected market rebalancing? The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) came…

03 Jun 2016: China has been the primary growth area for oil as well as for tankers over the…

27 May 2016: After the oil industry suffered from a severe drought in Venezuela, forest fires in Canada and…

20 May 2016: Nigeria’s crude oil production and exports have been hit by severe outages as a result of…