Tanker owners are enjoying a red hot winter market with rates passing $100,000 per day on some routes and one voyage setting a new year-to-date high. 

Fearnley Securities this morning placed spot rates out of the Middle East Gulf for the Far East at world scale 87.5, equal to $101,900 per day.

“It was another active day in the MEG, and charterers had to pay up to secure tonnage,” analysts Jonathan Staubo and Espen Landmark Fjermestad said in a report today.

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