Poor earnings prompt VLCCs to cut costs by idling, slow steaming

Mar 18 2021


Weak or negative returns for VLCCs hauling crude from the Persian Gulf to North Asia are prompting shipowners to adopt cost-cutting measures like curtailing sailing speed and idling their ships near Singapore or Sri Lanka’s port of Galle.

 

 

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