LONDON: If a single ship can capture the current state of the global oil, it’s the supertanker Saiq, floating idly about 850km south of the Canary Islands.
Until a few days ago, the 330m-long tanker, chartered by Royal Dutch Shell Plc, was steaming at 13 knots toward the Chinese port of Tianjin after loading a two-million-barrel cargo of North Sea oil at the Hound Point terminal near Edinburgh. Then, it suddenly stopped in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, according to ship-tracking data compiled by Bloomberg.
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