Brokers were linking Shell to the 160,000-cbm Asia Vision, which they reported fixed for a period of up to six months, including options at a rate in the range of $50,000 per day.
Similarly, trader Vitol is said to have tied up Dynagas’s recently delivered, 162,000-cbm Clean Planet for a period deal of the same length.
Brokers comment that rates for similar business have slipped backwards in the past few days from levels in the $60,000s per day.
