Trading houses charter more supertankers for oil storage
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International trading houses such as Trafigura, Vitol, Gunvor, Koch and oil company Shell have rented upwards of 20 tankers vessels and are currently using the vessels to store around 40 million barrels of oil in the expectation of reaping future financial gains if and when the oil price begins to rise again.
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