Chinese tanker spot chartering activity dipped in 2024, but not enough for Unipec to be knocked off the top spot in Poten & Partners’ annual league table.

For at least the fourth consecutive year, the trading arm of Sinopec was by far the winner of the tanker chartering crown, with 805 total fixtures good for more than 192m tonnes of cargo powered by its still-massive appetite for VLCCs.