{"id":6924,"date":"2026-10-09T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikhailinvest.com\/asian-refiners-ditch-u-s-oil-as-supertanker-rates-hit-82-million\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T14:30:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T11:30:00","slug":"asian-refiners-ditch-u-s-oil-as-supertanker-rates-hit-82-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikhailinvest.com\/zh\/asian-refiners-ditch-u-s-oil-as-supertanker-rates-hit-82-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian Refiners Ditch U.S. Oil as Supertanker Rates Hit $82 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"

The record-high freight costs refiners have to pay to receive a cargo of crude oil from the U.S. Gulf Coast have effectively shut the arbitrage to Asia, with refiners in the top crude oil-importing region turning to more barrels from the Middle East and South America, shipbrokers and traders have told \u8def\u900f\u793e<\/a>.<\/p>\n

U.S. crude, which had come to the rescue of the Asian refiners during most of the Iran war, is now out of reach in Asia because the economics of paying $80 million to have a cargo of crude oil shipped from the U.S. Gulf Coast simply don\u2019t work.<\/p>\n

This week, market chatter signaled that the U.S .-Asia freight rates have smashed the records, set just days ago, as the tanker market continues to reel from a shortage of vessels because many ships are tied in highly inefficient trades to work around the constraints at the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n

Commodity trading giant Trafigura has reportedly chartered a supertanker to ship crude oil from the U.S. Gulf Coast to China at a lump-sum fee of $76 million, a source with knowledge of the fixture told CNBC<\/a> \u672c\u661f\u671f\u3002.<\/p>\n

The $76-million tanker fee is ten times higher than the $7 million to $10 million before the war. This suggests the freight cost of the journey has now jumped to about $38 per barrel of oil.<\/p>\n

Rates on the U.S. Gulf-to-Japan route are also skyrocketing, and one supertanker has been reportedly offered at a total fee of $82 million for the journey, up by 50% from just three weeks ago, Bloomberg \u636e\u62a5\u9053<\/a> \u672c\u661f\u671f\u3002.<\/p>\n

With the US-Asia arbitrage closed for the time being, Asian refiners consider buying more of the United Arab Emirates\u2019 Murban grade<\/a>. Increased interest hiked the premium of Murban crude over the Dubai quotes to more than $11 per barrel on Thursday.<\/p>\n

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