Ian Middleton

Tanker Correspondent

Ian Middleton is former editor of Tanker Trends, and before that of both Seatrade magazine and Seatrade Week. After having begun his career with a leading UK newspaper chain, Ian joined Seatrade in the late 1970s, allowing him a ringside view of the up's and down's of the shipping business from the 1980s slump onwards.

With his specialist knowledge of the tanker market, Ian is one of Seatrade's most experienced writers and a practised conference speaker and moderator.

Ian’s Recent activity

Product tanker trades finally start to come good
Product tanker trades finally start to come good
Mar 11, 2015
The products trade good news story has taken some time to take off. But with Gulf/Japan earnings this year in the LR1 and LR2 sectors hovering around the $25,000 a day mark for this year so far, the market has, at...
Slow steaming hits tanker fleet productivity
Slow steaming hits tanker fleet productivity
Feb 24, 2015
A recent analysis by Clarkson Research suggests major declines in shipping fleet productivity, as measured by tonnes carried per deadweight, since the financial crash.
The VLCC floating storage play
The VLCC floating storage play
Jan 23, 2015
Analysts are beginning to ponder the possibilities of a floating storage play for VLCCs if the present contango - oil futures prices higher than current prices - is maintained.
Sunnier times for tanker owners
Sunnier times for tanker owners
Jan 07, 2015
So 2014 proved to be a rather better year for the crude tanker market than recent years with earnings in the VLCC, suezmax and aframax sectors considerably higher than the previous year.
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