Prices to charter large oil tankers sailing through the critical Strait of Hormuz have more than doubled since Israel launched an attack on Iran last week, amid shipowners’ reluctance to risk using the waterway.
The price to charter a very large crude carrier — capable of carrying 2mn barrels of oil — from the Gulf to China leapt from $19,998 a day last Wednesday, two days before Israel’s attack, to $47,609 on Wednesday this week, according to figures from Clarksons Research.
The rise on the route has far outpaced a 12 per cent increase in the wider Baltic Dirty Tanker Index of crude oil tanker rates globally over the same period.
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