The city of Rio de Janeiro has been chosen to host the XXXI summer Olympics in 2016. The games will be

MR tankers trading West of Suez have experienced a highly volatile market over the past few months. Although the market

Aframax owners in the West have seen several spectacular spikes this year, with tce earnings on the benchmark TD7 trade jumping

East Africa is an important export market for refiners in both the Middle East and India. Despite this, little attention

With just two months to go until we welcome the new year, for shipping this will bring a fresh wave

The world is gradually getting used to the idea that Iranian sanctions will be lifted. Over the past few months further

At the start of the month Gibson reported swelling product stocks in the ARA area, since our report distillate stocks have

When Gibsons published its annual tanker book in 2005, Chinese owners controlled just eeight VLCCs (less than 2% of the

The evidence is growing that US oil shale oil producers are not just facing increasing difficulties but in some cases