Shipping investors are closely watching the Q2 earnings reports for the US-listed tanker names as the market eases from its 2022 boom.

Scorpio Tankers is exercising purchase options on six vessels it has under lease.

Scorpio Tankers is repurchasing six vessels it previously sold under sale and leaseback arrangements.

The flows of tanker cargo have already been changed by the Ukraine war, now in its third month, with additional shifts, possibly of the “tectonic” variety, on the horizon.

Scorpio Group has added a further 23 scrubber units for $33.3m from Pacific Green Technologies to be installed on its bulker and tanker fleets.

Scorpio Tankers is strengthening its balance with a sale and leaseback deal for five vessels with China’s AVIC International Leasing.

Scorpio Tankers Inc. has entered into a sale-and-leaseback deal with China’s Bank of Communications Financial Leasing (Bocomm Leasing) for five secondhand MR product tankers.