From TACO to NACHO: The pricing logic behind the tanker stock rout
- Chinese shipping stocks crashed as markets shifted from ‘Trump Always Chickens Out’ to ‘Not A Chance Hormuz Opens’ — a framework highlighted at last week’s Lloyd’s List Intelligence China Day forum
- Event also outlined a two-phase freight logic: early supply disruption has given way to cargo suppression, but a triple demand pulse awaits once the strait reopens
- One analyst at the forum argued shipping should now be benchmarked against the age of imperial rivalry, not the era of globalisation — ‘today is the most peaceful day of the next decade’
Smart money is betting big on prolonged tanker prosperity, but collective optimism has backfired before
