Cargo owners have been turning to older VLCCs to keep rates under pressure.

Shipbrokers noted charterers reacting to secure cheaper voyages after shipowners tried to push up earnings for newer vessels, but fixing activity is not supporting tanker companies' efforts.

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Clarksons Platou Securities said earnings for modern eco VLCCs remain relatively unchanged at $17,700 per day.