{"id":174980,"date":"2026-06-24T06:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T06:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/174980\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T06:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T06:01:08","slug":"oil-tanker-booked-in-gulf-at-897-of-benchmark-freight-rate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/174980\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil Tanker Booked in Gulf at 897% of Benchmark Freight Rate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">A supertanker has been provisionally booked to transport oil from the Persian Gulf to India at a rate equivalent to almost nine times benchmark freight costs, an eye-watering price that reflects the shortage of available, empty vessels in the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The very-large crude carrier, capable of handling about two million barrels of oil, will be supplied by South Korea shipowner Sinokor at 897 Worldscale points, or 897% of the benchmark, according to shipbrokers. That fee ranks as the highest so far this year, they added, asking not to be named as discussions are not public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A supertanker has been provisionally booked to transport oil from the Persian Gulf to India at a rate&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[26],"tags":[262,1170,3199,138,3190,34,94,207,39,20497,1876,106,36],"class_list":["post-174980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-persian-gulf","tag-china","tag-economics","tag-generic-1st-cl-future","tag-india","tag-industries","tag-iran","tag-iraq","tag-markets","tag-persian-gulf","tag-seoul","tag-singapore","tag-south-korea","tag-war"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116803566502390046","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}