{"id":651524,"date":"2025-11-06T08:22:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T02:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=651524"},"modified":"2025-11-06T08:43:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T03:13:26","slug":"oil-tankers-get-dirty-ditching-fuels-for-crude-as-rates-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-tankers-get-dirty-ditching-fuels-for-crude-as-rates-boom\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil tankers get &#8216;dirty&#8217;, ditching fuels for crude as rates boom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A spike in freight rates for tankers hauling oil has prompted a wave of vessels to join the lucrative trade, with dozens of ships switching their focus from hauling products to carrying crude across the world&#8217;s oceans. <\/p>\n<p>In the first four days of this month, nine so-called long range-2, or LR2 tankers &#8211; the largest crude oil vessels that carry products such as jet fuel and diesel &#8211; switched to carrying crude oil instead, according to data from ship-tracking platform Signal Ocean. That brings the year-to-date tally of so-called clean-to-dirty switches to 35.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A spike in freight rates for tankers hauling oil has prompted a wave of vessels to join the lucrative trade, with dozens of ships switching their focus from hauling products to carrying crude across the world&#8217;s oceans. In the first four days of this month, nine so-called long range-2, or LR2 tankers &#8211; the largest crude oil vessels that carry products such as jet fuel and diesel &#8211; switched to carrying crude oil instead, according to data from ship-tracking platform Signal Ocean. That brings the year-to-date tally of so-called clean-to-dirty switches to 35.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,191,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-651524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}