Tanker shipping

India’s decision to diversify its crude imports will have little impact on the crude tanker rates
India’s recent decision to diversify crude imports to reduce the dependence on Middle Eastern crude will have little impact on the freight rates in the crude tanker market. Although an increase in long-haul crude imports by India from the Atlantic basin will boost tonne-mile demand for crude tankers in the short term,  ongoing oversupply in the market will cap any surge in freight rates.

01 Feb 2021: China's self-sufficiency in paraxylene to impact chemical shipping market in 2021
China’s increasing production of paraxylene will reduce imports from South Korea and Japan, putting pressure on freight rates on intra-Asia routes in 2021.

30 Oct 2020: Swing tankers unlikely to join chemical trading fleet until 2021
IMO-class tankers which swung to product trading in 2Q20 due to high freight rates and floating storage requirements are unlikely to join the chemical trading fleet until 2021.

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