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Tanker Rates Nearly Halve As Hormuz Shipping Normalizes
Tanker Rates Nearly Halve As Hormuz Shipping Normalizes
The recent spike in the cost to hire a supertanker carrying 2 million barrels of crude from Saudi Arabia to China is now being sharply reversed, as more shippers send vessels through the Strait of Hormuz and normalization trends continue to improve.
Bloomberg reports that tanker rates for the Saudi Arabia-to-China route tumbled to about $287K on Friday, down 44% from more than $514K on Tuesday. That data came from the Baltic Exchange.
Rates remain elevated and still highly profitable for owners, but...
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Radical climate activists are counting on that.
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Authored by Craig Tindale via X:
Executive Summary
The modern world order, having organized itself around efficiency, cost minimization, and logistical precision, has created a machinery of dependence so extreme that the interruption of one narrow corridor can propagate outward into a general crisis of civilization.
What appears at first as a maritime blockade is in fact the exposure of the entire global system as a hierarchy of brittle interdependencies.
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New York Times: ’13 U.S. Bases Uninhabitable’ — We Could’ve Just Marched Home
For decades, Ron Paul has called for closing all foreign U.S. bases and bringing all of our troops home. “We just marched in. We should just march out.” But alas, this “American First” policy recommendation was ignored. Perpetual war was too engrained in the government and their special interest benefactors. Now, what should have been […]
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