Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Asian Oil-Product Tanker Rates Rise After Japan's Product Inventory Falls

(Bloomberg) -- Asian freight rates for shipping
jet fuel, gasoline and other clean petroleum products were
mostly higher on a dearth of vessels and may rise in the next
few days following a drop in Japan's oil product inventories.

The cost of hiring medium-range or MR tankers capable of
shipping 30,000-ton oil-product cargoes on the benchmark
Singapore-Japan rose for a third straight day, according to the
London-based Baltic Exchange. It added 2.2 percent to
Worldscale 203.33 yesterday, up 2.6 percent from June 22.


Read more at Bloomberg Energy News

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