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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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