New York-listed Ardmore will hand $0.10 per share to investors for the last three months of 2014, in line with the previous quarter, it said in a statement today.

Almost simultaneously, Omar Nokta of Clarksons Capital issued a report suggesting the owner was heading for a stronger performance, potentially aided by floating storage in the crude market.

Nokta says upwards of 20 VLCCs have been fixed on potential storage deals, removing roughly 6% of the fleet from the spot market.

“However,