Scorpio Tankers bullish after 17 VLCCs and suezmaxes quit product trade

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Scorpio Tankers is optimistic about product tanker prospects as crude vessels move back out of clean trades.

Rates had come under pressure from the summer as dirty vessels cleaned up their tanks to capitalise on better earnings for product cargoes.

But Scorpio now notes “rates improving as maintenance eases and crude vessels move back to dirty”.