{"id":217112,"date":"2026-04-03T13:52:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T13:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=217112"},"modified":"2026-04-03T13:52:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T13:52:21","slug":"super-tanker-rates-soar-amid-sanctions-supply-shifts-and-strategic-hoarding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=217112","title":{"rendered":"Super Tanker Rates Soar Amid Sanctions, Supply Shifts, and Strategic Hoarding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Geopolitics, growing oil supply, longer voyages, and disruptions due to sanctions and altered shipping lanes pushed crude oil tanker rates to multi-year highs at the end of 2025. After a dip in January, rates started climbing again this month in what shipping executives described as a fundamental shift in the market for very large crude carriers (VLCC) capable of carrying around 1.9 million barrels to 2.2 million barrels of crude.\u00a0\u00a0&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/oilprice.com\/Energy\/Energy-General\/Super-Tanker-Rates-Soar-Amid-Sanctions-Supply-Shifts-and-Strategic-Hoarding.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geopolitics, growing oil supply, longer voyages, and disruptions due to sanctions and altered shipping lanes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":217113,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217112-super-tanker-rates-soar-amid-sanctions-supply-shifts-and-strategic-hoarding.jpg",718,300,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217112-super-tanker-rates-soar-amid-sanctions-supply-shifts-and-strategic-hoarding-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217112-super-tanker-rates-soar-amid-sanctions-supply-shifts-and-strategic-hoarding-300x125.jpg",300,125,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217112-super-tanker-rates-soar-amid-sanctions-supply-shifts-and-strategic-hoarding.jpg",640,267,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217112-super-tanker-rates-soar-amid-sanctions-supply-shifts-and-strategic-hoarding.jpg",640,267,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217112-super-tanker-rates-soar-amid-sanctions-supply-shifts-and-strategic-hoarding.jpg",718,300,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217112-super-tanker-rates-soar-amid-sanctions-supply-shifts-and-strategic-hoarding.jpg",718,300,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217112-super-tanker-rates-soar-amid-sanctions-supply-shifts-and-strategic-hoarding.jpg",718,300,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217112-super-tanker-rates-soar-amid-sanctions-supply-shifts-and-strategic-hoarding.jpg",718,300,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217112-super-tanker-rates-soar-amid-sanctions-supply-shifts-and-strategic-hoarding-590x300.jpg",590,300,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=38\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=217112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/217113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=217112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=217112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=217112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}