Tanker Opinions

Poten & Partners tanker research and consulting group monitors and analyzes tanker market and energy developments around the world and advises companies on strategy development and implementation. Below you will find our team’s Weekly Tanker Opinions. To subscribe, click here.

Erik Broekhuizen

Summer Doldrums

Erik Broekhuizen
6 Jun 2016:  Are tankers facing a typical seasonal summer lull? It is well known that tanker rates, both for…
Erik Broekhuizen

(Re) Balancing Act

Erik Broekhuizen
10 Jun 2016: Are we at the beginning of the long-expected market rebalancing? The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) came…
Erik Broekhuizen

The Chinese Tea Party

Erik Broekhuizen
03 Jun 2016: China has been the primary growth area for oil as well as for tankers over the…
Erik Broekhuizen

Force Majeure In France

Erik Broekhuizen
27 May 2016: After the oil industry suffered from a severe drought in Venezuela, forest fires in Canada and…
Erik Broekhuizen

(Less) Out of Africa

Erik Broekhuizen
20 May 2016: Nigeria’s crude oil production and exports have been hit by severe outages as a result of…
Erik Broekhuizen

Lights Out

Erik Broekhuizen
29 April 2016:  Venezuelans can’t seem to catch a break. The country’s economy, already reeling from the…
Erik Broekhuizen

How Products Ebb And Flow

Erik Broekhuizen
22 April 2016: Since the global financial crisis, when product trades declined as a result of a…
Erik Broekhuizen

Tanker Income Inequality

Erik Broekhuizen
15 April 2016: Typically, the Suezmax and VLCC markets behave somewhat similarly over a period of time….
Erik Broekhuizen

More From The Med (Maybe)

Erik Broekhuizen
08 April 2016:  The Arab Spring movement, which started in Tunisia in December 2010 and quickly spread…
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