Current shipping boom is being compared to the 2000s Supercycle.
Rates and asset values are sky high, as they were two decades ago.
According to Matthew Freeman, vice president of valuation and analytics at Veson Nautical, VLCC asset values are getting close to the 2000s peak and LR2 values are higher. “We have surpassed, in some ways, the 2008 supercycle,” he said
#TANKERS
Some of the $MPCC new fixtures are still being fixed at massive levels:
• $41,000/day
• $40,700/day
• $33,250/day
• $31,900/day
Even extending into 2030–2040 charters.
The container market remains far tighter than many expected.
Great line by @OilCfd
“Iran [is] maintaining the illusion that it controls the strait, Trump [is] maintaining the illusion that he controls oil prices, and China [is] maintaining the illusion that none of this affects them.”
Starting to see an increased build up of vessels waiting to transit through the Panama Canal
The Strait of Hormuz closure has shifted trade flows, increasing Atlantic Basin exports to Asia & the West Coast, leading to this congestion, inflating tanker demand & pushing up rates
Latest Tanker spot rates from Affinity.
Clean rates remain at or near historical highs.
Dirty remains at around $100K and higher.
$FRO $NAT $TEN $TRMD $BWET $STNG $TNK $DHT $INSW $ASC $ECO $HAFN
Iran-linked tankers that haven't yet been placed under US sanctions continue to move freely in and out of the region. US Treasury's OFAC has slapped sanctions on 397 Iran-linked tankers but there are another 236 we know about which OFAC haven't yet addressed. #OOTT#IranWar