Trader Vitol is demonstrating a healthy appetite for crude tankers by fixing four ships for period business.
The deals include a charter for a suezmax tanker from Greek owner Liquimar Tankers and three aframax tankers, European tanker brokers said.
Vitol has taken the 167,000-dwt Evridiki (built 2007) from Liquimar for 30 months at $23,000 per day, a rate which is in line with expectations.
