Cheap Russian diesel goes global, expanding shipping routes
As European bans on Russian diesel imports enter their fifth month, Saudi Arabia is taking the federation’s diesel for domestic use and exporting its own to Singapore amid an unprecedented upheaval in global middle distillate trade flows
Russian diesel, once destined for Europe, now shipped to Türkiye, Brazil, northern Africa and Middle East at substantial discount, with longer voyages and profits from arbitrage trades boosting product tanker utilisation and earnings