Global Trade Increases to 244 MMt, Breaking Two-Year Stagnation
17 Feb 2015: Preliminary data is showing that global trade reached 244 MMt in 2014 a new annual record…
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Oil Price Slide Threatens LNG Funding Surge
12 Feb 2015: LNG financing activity maintained strong momentum through to the end of 2014, with transactions totalling a…
Construction Under Way At Four US Liquefaction Projects
22 Dec 2014: When the US Department of Energy gave Freeport LNG its final blessing on November 14 to…
Media Mentions
TradeWinds News: Turkey’s imports of Russian crude surge, but Poten sees potential for course change
October 30, 2022
Erik Broekhuizen, Poten’s head of tanker research, said in a weekly note that…
TradeWinds News: War has propped up tankers amid economic ‘dark clouds’. A Russian exports slump could change that
October 24, 2022
Poten & Partners and Gibson Shipbrokers both issued research reports expressing concern over…
S&P Global Platts: Russia likely to struggle to find enough tankers to evade G7 oil price cap
October 25, 2022
“Russia has been forced to look for alternative customers,” shipbroker Poten & Partners…
Events
Tanker Opinions
Recession Ahead?
16 Aug 2019: Will an economic slowdown threaten the tanker market?
The magazine ‘the Economist’ had an article this morning…
Venezuela’s Struggle Continue
9 Aug 2019: U.S. tightens sanctions against former regional powerhouse
The reports of the imminent demise of the regime of…
The Road To Recovery
2 Aug 2019: Tanker contracting slows amid challenging rate environment
There is a strong correlation between tanker newbuilding activity and…
LNG & Natural Gas Opinions
Weekly Asphalt Headlines
Asphalt Weekly Monitor
15 May 2020
- East Coast retail asphalt and flux pricing remains steady for this week.
- Some asphalt barge prices firm on…
Asphalt Weekly Monitor
8 May 2020
- East Coast retail asphalt pricing slips in some areas, while retail flux pricing is unchanged.
- Some asphalt barge…
Asphalt Weekly Monitor
1 May 2020
- East Coast retail asphalt pricing declines in some areas, with flux pricing steady.
- Some asphalt barge prices are…
