Poten Report: Charter Rates Rise On Tight Availability
An extremely tight LNG shipping market with “zero structural availability” has driven charter rates to record levels over $100,000…
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Brazil Hikes LNG Imports On Southern Drought
Brazil is back in the spot market after a relatively quiet 2011, with recent buying activity from state-owned Petrobras…
US Export Applications Soar as LNG Interest Builds
Export applications totaling over 13 Bcf/d have now been received by the US Department of Energy from eight separate…
Media Mentions
The Wall Street Journal: Europe’s Natural-Gas Crunch Sparks Global Battle for Tankers
August 22, 2022
Just one LNG tanker is available to be chartered for a single voyage…
Riviera Maritime Media: Divergent forecasts for oil markets reflect deep uncertainty
August 16, 2022
There is a difference of opinion about oil supply and demand balances for…
TradeWinds News: Is this finally a breakthrough for VLCCs or another false dawn?
August 11, 2022
However, Poten & Partners warns that although newbuilding and secondhand values of VLCCs…
Events
Tanker Opinions
Transportation Costs With 2020 Vision
31 Aug 2018;
So far, the discussion around the implementation of IMO’s low sulphur bunker fuel mandate (“IMO 2020”) has…
Panama Tankers
24 Aug 2018;
On June 26th, 2016 the container ship “COSCO Shipping Panama” was the first vessel that officially passed…
Indonesia Talks Turkey
17 AUG 2018;
The financial crisis in Turkey has created sharp fluctuations in the value of the Turkish Lira and…
LNG & Natural Gas Opinions
Weekly Asphalt Headlines
Asphalt Weekly Monitor
19 Jul 2019
- East Coast retail asphalt prices mostly steady or lower, with flux prices unchanged.
- Wholesale asphalt and flux…
Asphalt Weekly Monitor
12 Jul 2019
- Paving projects got restarted this week in the U.S. following the Holiday week.
- East Coast retail asphalt prices…
Asphalt Weekly Monitor
5 Jul 2019
- The Independence Day holiday in the U.S. limited paving demand most of the week.
- East Coast retail asphalt…
