In shipping fuel, the dual-fuel vessel fleet has topped 500 ships as industry investment passes 200 billion dollars, gCaptain reported, a sign that ordering for alternative-fuel tonnage is proceeding despite the conventional tanker crisis. The item is single-sourced in this window and is carried here, not as a full story, for that reason.
Freight split by segment. Tanker freight rose 11.99 percent in the latest market tables, while dry bulk freight fell 4.16 percent, a divergence consistent with the day’s energy story: tanker capacity is being repriced for Gulf risk and longer routes, while bulk demand signals from grains and Chinese industry remain soft.
In Libya, a pipeline valve from the Hamada and Tahara oilfields to Zawiya port has been shut, reducing production at both fields, the head of the National Oil Corporation told Reuters on Thursday. No volume for the reduction was given in the reporting read, so the item is noted here and in today’s Brent story without a barrel figure.
In market structure, exchanges have urged the CFTC to block Kalshi’s perpetual oil futures plan, a headline-level item in the triage pool noted here without a full story, as the filing and the CFTC’s response were not in the candidate pool. In West Africa, Nigerian reporting put domestic diesel receipts at a 13-month low as domestic supply and imports fell, a second-order counterpart to yesterday’s Dangote crude shortfall story, carried here pending fuller figures.