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The Iran War Has Turned VLCCs Into $650,000-a-Day Assets

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More Gulf oil is moving again. Getting it out now costs a fortune. Earnings on the benchmark Saudi Arabia-to-China supertanker route surged to a record $647,000 per day on Thursday, according to Baltic Exchange data cited by Bloomberg. That is more than ten times the rate a year ago—and nearly 27% above the $510,000 reached just ten days earlier. The spike comes as Persian Gulf producers increase crude shipments through the Strait of Hormuz desp…

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Explosive rise in the cost of transporting oil from the Persian Gulf to Asia – Greek shipowners also in the game of “dark passages”

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