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    <pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Tanker Fixtures</title>
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      <title>High Peace sold for $55m</title>
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      <description>IN A deal that further underlines the dramatic increase in tanker prices over the course of an unprecedented bull run, d&#x2019;Amico International closed the sale on Thursday of the 2004-built medium-range tanker High Peace to Vietnam&#x2019;s Southern Petroleum Transportation, writes John McLaughlin.</description>
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      <title>Owners hope for a revival of suezmaxes</title>
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      <description>TANKER owners are hoping that the soft suezmax market will improve this week and help bolster charter rates, which have been falling in recent weeks, writes Martyn Wingrove.</description>
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      <title>Colombia seeks pipeline partners</title>
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      <description>COLOMBIA may seek companies from China and India to invest as much as $500m in a pipeline to carry oil or petroleum products from Venezuela&#x2019;s Orinoco Belt to the Pacific Ocean, Bloomberg reports.</description>
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      <title>BALTIC TANKER INDICES &#x2009;9 May 2008</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>IMAREX TANKERFUTURES &#x2009; 9 May 2008</title>
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      <description>All prices shown in Worldscale</description>
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      <title>Liquimar says no order yet made in VLCC talks</title>
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      <description>LIQUIMAR Tankers Management has dubbed as &#x201c;premature&#x201d; brokers&#x2019; reports that the company has contracted four very large crude carriers at South Korea&#x2019;s STX Shipbuilding, writes Nigel Lowry.</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 9 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Tanker Fixtures</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 9 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Worldscale fends off dollar for Tanker FFAs</title>
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      <description>BROKERS believe shipping derivatives for tankers will continue to trade on Worldscale rates in the short to medium term, writes Michelle Wiese Bockmann. This is despite new Baltic Exchange measures to provide dollar-per-day amounts for freight rates to boost futures trading,</description>
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      <title>Lull pushes product tanker rates to an historical low</title>
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      <description>A PROLONGED lull in activity caused by extensive holidays in Europe and the Far East has kept clean product tanker rates well below their highs for the year, writes John McLaughlin.</description>
      <author>John McLaughlin</author>
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      <title>How shipping&#x2019;s Buffett laid on quite a spread</title>
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      <description>IS JOHN Fredriksen shipping&#x2019;s equivalent of Warren Buffett, the legendary investor who is now the world&#x2019;s richest man? asks Tony Gray</description>
      <author>Tony Gray</author>
      <pubDate>Fri, 9 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Stolt-Nielsen and Odfjell get Brussels reprieve</title>
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      <description>BRUSSELS has closed its five-year investigation into possible collusive behaviour in the parcel tanker trades without penalising the principal accused companies, writes Rajesh Joshi in New York.</description>
      <author>Rajesh Joshi New York</author>
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      <title>BALTIC TANKER INDICES &#x2009;8 May 2008</title>
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      <title>IMAREX TANKERFUTURES &#x2009; 8 May 2008</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 9 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 9 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 9 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Montanari slips in first quarter despite bigger fleet</title>
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      <description>EARNINGS slide 46% as falling rates for the spot carriage of clean products also began to feed into rates for longer-term charters.</description>
      <author>John McLaughlin</author>
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      <title>Profit slump in line with Torm expectations</title>
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      <description>FIRST quarter profits before tax down from $680m to $52.1m, but group says in line with expectations.</description>
      <author>Craig Eason</author>
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      <title>Fredriksen fails to unseat Tui board chairman</title>
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      <description>TROIM vows to continue to press for changes at the German group.</description>
      <author>By Katrin Berkenkopf in Hanover</author>
      <pubDate>Thu, 8 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>D&#x2019;Amico eyes consolidation despite dip in share price</title>
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      <description>THE erosion of its share price since its public listing last year and a weak product tanker market will not deter D&#x2019;Amico International Shipping from pursuing its agenda of consolidating and pooling, the Milan-listed company said.</description>
      <author>Rajesh Joshi</author>
      <pubDate>Thu, 8 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Imarex tanker record</title>
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      <description>NORWEGIAN freight derivatives exchange Imarex recorded a record 1,666 tanker forward freight agreement deals traded in April, writes Jamie Dale.</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 8 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Braemar sees profit rise and record orderbook</title>
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      <description>A BUOYANT Braemar Shipping Services has unveiled a 30% increase in annual pre-tax profit, a record forward orderbook and an increased dividend, writes Tony Gray.</description>
      <author>Tony Gray</author>
      <pubDate>Thu, 8 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Owners cash in as tight supply pushes VLCCs higher</title>
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      <description>THE tight supply of very large crude carriers is pushing charter rates towards W200 levels as owners are capitalising on the strength in demand for their 2m barrel capacity tankers, writes Martyn Wingrove.</description>
      <author>Martyn Wingrove</author>
      <pubDate>Thu, 8 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 8 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>BALTIC TANKER INDICES &#x2009;7 May 2008</title>
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      <title>IMAREX TANKERFUTURES &#x2009; 7 May 2008</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 8 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Stolt-Nielsen and Odfjell investigation dropped</title>
      <link>http://www.lloydslist.com/art/20017531056&amp;src=rss</link>
      <description>BRUSSELS closes its collusive behaviour investigation in the parcel tanker trades without penalising the accused companies.</description>
      <author>Rajesh Joshi</author>
      <pubDate>Thu, 8 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>VLCC rates stuck in May doldrums</title>
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      <description>SPOT rates for 30,000 tonnes of clean product carried on tankers from Singapore to Japan are hovering at historically low levels, at around W165, says Imarex.</description>
      <author>Michelle Wiese Bockmann</author>
      <pubDate>Wed, 7 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The burning questions about biofuels&#x2019; growth</title>
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      <description>What&#x2019;s the fuss?</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 7 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Tanker Fixtures</title>
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      <title>French strike uncertainty keeps aframax rates buoyant</title>
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      <description>AFRAMAX activity continued its rollercoaster ride in the Mediterranean last week, with French port workers&#x2019; strike threats adding to uncertainty, writes Jamie Dale.</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 7 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 7 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>IMAREX TANKERFUTURES &#x2009; 6 May 2008</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 7 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 7 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>May 6, 2008 3,789.90 (+97)</description>
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      <title>D'amico undaunted by share price erosion</title>
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      <description>COMPANY determined to pursue consolidation and pooling despite share price erosion and weak product tanker market.</description>
      <author>Rajesh Joshi, New York</author>
      <pubDate>Wed, 7 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>BILLIONAIRE Israeli shipping magnates, the Ofer Brothers Group, have time chartered some of their tankers to Iran&#x2019;s national oil company, writes Michelle Wiese Bockmann.</description>
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