Morgan Stanley: Is the tanker boom over?

Rates for the largest crude oil carriers have dropped to the lowest level this year, and the prospects for the entire tanker market in 2017 are looking a little fuzzy, project Morgan Stanley's shipping analysts.
Photo: DHT
Photo: DHT
BY OLE ANDERSEN

The rates for Very Large Crude Carriers, VLCCs, and the draught horses for the smaller vessel types in crude oil, as well as for refined oil products (product tanker), declined further last week by 55 percent.

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