Krach globalny pogłębia się
/ 178.36.146.* / 2013-04-04 08:53
Krach na ropie najlepiej widać nie tylko po spadku jej ceny, ale i po załamaniu stawek frachtowych, z powodu braku popytu na przewozy, które doprowadzą do bankructwa floty tankowców.
Earnings for very large crude carriers, the industry’s biggest ships, plunged 75 percent from a year earlier to $11,624 a day, according to figures from Clarkson Plc (CKN), the world’s largest shipbroker. A surplus of the supertankers seeking charters in the Persian Gulf averaged 21 percent during the first quarter, the largest glut since 2009, according to market surveys by Bloomberg.
“Crude rates remain in the doldrums,” RS Platou Markets AS, an Oslo-based investment bank, said by e-mail today. VLCCs earned $17,000 a day on average in the first quarter, down 32 percent from a year earlier, it said.
VLCCs are losing $3,012 daily on the benchmark Saudi Arabia-to-Japan voyage, figures from the Baltic Exchange in London showed. That compared with a $29-a-day loss as of March 28, the last time before today rates were updated because of national holidays. Frontline said in February the ships in its fleet need a daily return of $24,200 to break even.