摘要: |
The tanker market has for many years had sanctions or regulations creating a regulatory division in the marketplace. At the turn of the millennium, the market was divided into single and double hull fleets. Then there were sanctions against Iran and a fleet based around the ownership of the Iranian fleet, which operated in off-main market trades, or in storage. Now the market is split over those ships out of the main market and trading in oils out of floating storage units (FSUs) to nonsanction adopting countries, primarily mainland China and India. Incidentally, this has the desired effect of reducing FSU revenues from the sale of oil as their oil is priced at a discount to move, and cheap oil is refined and sold on or used domestically to deliver windfall profits in those countries but nevertheless forming part of total oil supply. |