Talk of a six-figure daily charter rate for an LNG carrier were sweeping the market this week amid shipowner hopes that rates would shift up in the fallout from the ban on Qatari vessels by a number of nations.
Brokers and owners say energy major BP has had to pay a rate in the region of $140,000 per day to fix a Cool Pool vessel for a five-day voyage from Trinidad and Tobago to the Dominican Republic.
