Oil tankers face new normal amid pandemic and decarbonization drive

Platts spot freight rates 2020

The global tanker shipping industry is likely to find a new normal in the medium term, with sales of second-hand ships taking center stage while orders for newbuilds slow down.

Meanwhile, existing tanker companies may become bigger as ships change hands, or they may form pools to enable better bargaining with charterers, while shying away from ordering new ships.

Uncertainties over how and when the coronavirus pandemic will end are partly behind the new approach, but so is the higher use of...

https://blogs.platts.com/2020/09/24/oil-tankers-coronavirus-decarbonization-freight/

Tanker Freight Rates Tumble Due To Unwinding Floating Storage

  • Diamond S currently owns 66 ships across both the crude and product tanker segments.
  • It comprises of  15 Suezmaxes, one Aframax, and 50 Medium Range Tankers.
  • Teekay Tankers has a fleet of 26 Suezmaxes, 17 Aframaxes, and nine Long-Range 2 product tankers.
  • They are focussed on destocking crude and refined product barrels stored on tankers.
  • Heavy floating storage demand spiked in April and May
  • The volume of crude and products being stored on tankers peaked 380 million barrels.
  • 150 tankers of...

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