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While Product Tankers Idle Off New York, European Demand Lifts Rates by 18 Percent

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November 1, 2012
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The Maersk Misumi, pictured here, is one of nearly a dozen tankers standing by to enter the Port of New York and New Jersey. Image via Henk de Winde/Marinetraffic
(Bloomberg) — Rates for tankers hauling refined fuels jumped to more than a six-month high as superstorm Sandy disrupted shipping schedules, according to RS Platou Markets AS.

With power outages and refinery shutdowns curbing U.S. output and demand, traders are avoiding sending ships to the U.S. from Europe, Frode Moerkedal, an Oslo-based analyst at Platou, said in an e-mailed report today, citing unnamed brokers. About 6.1 million customers were without electricity as of Oct. 31, the Energy Department said.

Rates for oil-product tankers to northwest Europe from the U.S. Gulf jumped 18 percent yesterday, the most since at least March, to 100.63 industry-standard Worldscale points, according to the Baltic Exchange, the London-based publisher of shipping costs. That’s the highest since April 11, data show.

“Brokers said Hurricane Sandy has created havoc to vessel schedules and a tight tonnage situation in the U.S. Gulf underpinned the higher rates,” Moerkedal said in the report. “With substantial demand destruction on the U.S. East Coast, refiners and traders have been reluctant to send vessels into the area from Europe, brokers said.”

-Isaac Arnsdorf, Copyright 2012 Bloomberg.

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