Shipping Russian oil gets costlier as rates spike above USD 330,000

Daily earnings for tankers shipping oil from Russia’s Baltic ports are soaring as shipowners continue to exercise caution about hauling the country’s crude.
Photo: Bjoern Kils/Reuters/Ritzau Scanpix
Photo: Bjoern Kils/Reuters/Ritzau Scanpix
By Alex Longley, Bloomberg News

It now costs more than USD 338,000 a day to charter an oil tanker from the port of Primorsk to northwest Europe. That’s the highest since at least 2008, according to data from the Baltic Exchange in London.

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