Seatrade Maritime News: LNG carrier spot rates could remain depressed until 2027: Poten

September 22, 2025 The spot market for LNG carriers is extraordinarily bearish and, on a webinar, last week Poten & Partners Sergio Chapa and Irwin Yeo went into great detail on the current situation and took a look out into what is clearly an uncertain future. Chapa, Poten’s Senior LNG Analyst (Americas) explained that the present market weakness, with spot charter rates around $32,000 per day for modern 174,000 cu metre MEGI and XDF vessels described as “subdued”, in the aftermath of a spot market that was “crashing…in the aftermath of a warm winter” in end 2024/ early 2025.

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