VLCC shipments are set to fall from Iraq after a storage tank fire at the country’s biggest oilfield. The blaze began on 24 January and was quickly brought under control. Bloomberg reported that ...
Shell had booked two Very Large Crude Carriers (VLCC) on Tuesday at the rate of Worldscale 70. Worldscale is a unified system of establishing payment of freight rate for a given oil tanker’s cargo.
In 2024, new crude oil tanker deliveries dropped to a 36-year low as only 17 new tankers, with a capacity of 2.5m deadweight tonnes (DWT), joined the fleet.
The robust demand pushed the rate for a VLCC on the Middle East to China ... a separate senior oil trader said. Tanker freight costs for "clean products" such as gasoline, diesel and jet fuel ...
[Stay on top of transportation news: Get TTNews in your inbox.] Oil tanker rates jumped Jan. 13 as the Biden administration’s sanctions on Russia’s petroleum trade threaten to cut the supply ...