Too Much Or Not Enough?

30 Jan 2026: A growing tanker orderbook starts an age-old discussion Last week, in our annual forecasting opinion (“A Fool’s Game?”), we prognosticated that the tanker orderbook will decline in 2026.  We are still early in the year, but the headlines from many of the trade publications seem to indicate that this may not happen.  It appears that many shipowners and other investors in our industry a lining up even more newbuilding orders. In this week’s tanker opinion, we will give a little more background on why we think (hope?) the orderbook will decline and why we could be wrong. Please fill out the form to read the article.