Industry Opinions

Recent weeks have seen earnings on benchmark tanker voyages threaten to break below operating costs amid an oversupply of…

With the Macondo well successfully capped and the cleanup operation in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico moving into its…

Brazil’s rapidly-expanding economy has earned it a place among the developing world’s economic powerhouses, but it is the country’s…

Last month, the International Energy Agency (IEA) announced that in 2009, China surpassed the United States to become the…

One can’t help but notice a disconnect between slipping freight rates, weak demand fundamentals and the surge of newbuilding…

Facing a likely future of tightened environmental regulation and rising marine fuel costs, efforts are underway to standardize efficiency…

With the enactment of a new U.S. sanctions regime earlier this month, the tanker industry has once again found…

Alongside China, India has emerged as an important driver of many of the trends expected to determine the direction…

After threatening to follow a path that some projections showed would send it through the heart of the U.S….

As difficult as it was to see the light just a year ago, optimism in the tanker market has…