International Seaways

Container shipping just experienced a record boom. Some believe crude and product tankers are poised to follow suit.

Shipowners say they won’t order expensive new dual-fuel tankers without charters. They’re not getting charters, so they’re not ordering.

The pain at the pump keeps getting worse. Bad news for consumers. Good news for owners of refined product tankers.

Shipping analysts rethink outlooks on crude and product tanker rates: already grim market appears even grimmer.

Shares of Zim are flirting with a new peak while shares of ship-leasing, dry bulk and tanker companies lose ground.

An in-depth look at CEO compensation in container shipping, bulk shipping and the cruise industry

Tanker execs explain lack of distress sales and scrapping this time around, and why new orders will be more curtailed.

‘Bigger is better’ is the mantra of public tanker companies. The just-announced INSW-Diamond S merger is a step in that direction.

ZIM just completed the first U.S. shipping IPO in over five years. Here’s a look back at shipping’s wild multidecade ride on Wall Street.

New Kpler data reveals slow pace of floating-storage unwind and steady fall in crude-tanker utilization.

Amid talk of more floating storage, Kpler data reveals most of round-one storage volume is still on the water.

Crude-tanker rates on the benchmark Middle East-Asia run are now deep in the red.

M&A is being blocked by weak share pricing among buyers and lack of desperation among sellers.

An analysis of daily traded values and volumes of tanker and dry bulk stocks.

Will tanker sector see summer lull or more action ahead?

Tanker rates haven’t been this strong at this time of year for a half-decade.

Institutional sellers offset retail buyers of supertanker stocks.

Banner day on Wall Street buoys tanker names as pressure builds.

Good news: Vaccine shows promise. Bad news: Floating storage economics vanish.

There’s still too much oil in the world and tankers are still filling up with the overflow.

Public tanker owners post impressive earnings on an ugly day for tanker stocks.

Refined-product tankers join crude tankers in era of epic earnings.

U.S.-listed tanker stocks boast double-digit gains on historically awful day for crude-oil pricing.

Crude-tanker demand should continue to rise. Will stock prices follow suit?

Tanker shares fall back as crude-oil prices surge. What comes next?

As most of the transport sector suffers, crude-tanker owners haul in boatloads of cash.

Hall of fame induction and trade conference postponed until September.

Lois Zabrocky explains how two black swans — the outbreak and oil price war — reshaped the market.

Crude-tanker rates are skyrocketing, but leading analyst Michael Webber urges caution.

Why are share prices and tanker freight rates going in opposite directions?

Slashed oil production is bad for tankers, but fallout for container ships hinges on price action.

Killing of Iranian general and Iranian retaliation could spark another tanker rate spike.

Links to 16 exclusive interviews with key decision-makers in ocean shipping.

With profits around the corner, listed shipping companies are reopening the dividend spigots.

VLCC rates have rapidly fallen from over $300,000 per day to around $125,000 per day.

VLCC rates are reaching epic levels in the wake of an attack in the Red Sea on an Iranian Suezmax tanker.

VLCC rates are now at or near $100,000 per day, courtesy of U.S. sanctions targeting China’s COSCO.

U.S. sanctions targeting a subsidiary of China’s COSCO Shipping could have far-reaching consequences.

The next global recession would have a different impact on ocean shipping markets than the 2008-09 financial crisis.

If U.S. crude output were to lose momentum, it would be felt by tanker owners much more so than before.

Capesize owners were afraid to ballast to Brazil when a key Vale mine was closed. Now there are too few Capesizes in the Atlantic Basin, pushing up rates.

Hope springs eternal for shipping stocks. Some analysts claim now is finally the time to jump back in.

East Coast refinery outage spurs more trans-Atlantic gasoline cargoes from Europe.

There may be so little demand post-2020 for high-sulfur fuel oil that it may end up stored aboard tankers.

There are some positive signs for shipping rates, but overall, disappointment prevails.

There are reasons to be optimistic about rates in both the crude and product tanker sectors – and INSW’s fleet spans both categories.