Tipping a Balance
In tightly balanced tanker markets, any ripple in either short-term vessel supply or demand can potentially swing freight rates…
Tanker Opinions
Start Your Engines
This weekend may serve as one of the first official tests of whether demand for products can withstand current…
Follow The Leader
The Atlantic Basin spot tanker market has seen substantial strengthening in the past week, in particular the VLCCs and…
A Man A Plan A Canal
he Panama Canal has become one of the integral waterways for world maritime…
Oh, The Places We Go!
The increase in crude oil prices since the start of 2008 has been quite staggering in nominal terms. It…
Spread is the Word
There is no doubt that the tanker market has become increasingly complex in the past several years. Changing trade…
Starving for Fuel
Blame! Blame! Blame! Blaming a product for a price spike or supply shortage in its associated markets in order…
Pricing a Missed Position
Trans-Atlantic time charter equivalent (TCE) rates for clean MR vessels for most of this year were noticeably weaker than…
Energizing the Last Thirty Years
This week the Energy Information Administration (EIA) threw a thirtieth birthday and invited 1,600 of their closest friends from…
A Broken Record
On Tuesday April 1st, also known as April Fool’s Day, the United States House of Representatives’ Select Committee on…
Dieselizing the USA
As US motorists continue to cope with their gasoline addiction, some are being lured to a different designer fuel…
Bill Me Later
The past couple of weeks have been quite tumultuous in the United States financial markets. The wild ride was…
