MOL to Equip LR1 Tanker with Carbon Capture System
Mitsui O.S.K. Lines will equip its LR1 product tanker, Nexus Victoria, with the an onboard CO2 capture system. The installation will mark the first commercial installation of a CO2 capture...
By Alex Longley and Sherry Su
(Bloomberg) –With soaring shipping costs comes soaring bills for ships doing nothing.
In the oil-tanker market, day rates for delayed vessels — think taxis waiting with the meter on — have now reached around the $100,000 mark, according to traders and shipbrokers.
Those waiting fees are called demurrage, and it’s not unheard of in some locations for the delays to have reached seven to ten days, eroding the profit on physical oil trades.
Such hold ups aren’t out of the ordinary when factors like bad weather in the North Sea make loadings too risky or Covid controls slow logistics at Chinese ports.
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Recently, two vessels that were due to load Forties oil at a terminal on the coast of Scotland were delayed by almost a week, according to people with knowledge of the matter. Another, filled with crude from Kazakhstan, has been waiting near the Netherlands since Nov. 10.
The global oil tanker fleet has been increasingly stretched by Europe’s looming embargo on Russian oil, forcing cargoes to sail greater distances. That has also made it hard to find replacement ships at short notice, as demand is effectively lifted by the longer voyages.
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