Atlantic clean trades have swapped roles as a result of stock builds in the USA and slow draw downs.
In the past it was always easy to identify a backhaul trip as opposed to a fronthaul voyage.
In the Atlantic basin, carrying clean petroleum products from Europe to the USA has always been considered the fronthaul.
An owner then had the choice of ballasting back across the Atlantic or dropping down to the US Gulf or the Caribbean and loading gasoil or diesel for Europe.
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