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Prolonged US pipeline closure the wildcard for product tanker owners

May 11, 2021

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After a weekend of outages, the Colonial Pipeline operator said on Monday it expects to “substantially restore operational service” by the end of the week. Despite this vote of confidence, traders have booked at least six tankers to ship gasoline from Europe to the US. Although the products tanker market is oversupplied, it remains tight as non-eco MR spot rates for the TC2 route jumped by 90% on the news yesterday.

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