{
  "id": 19029138,
  "title": "VLCC Tankers Retreated Last Week",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/08/vlcc-tankers-retreated-last-week",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-11-08T22:00:56.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Hellenic Shipping News",
    "slug": "hellenic-shipping-news",
    "url": "https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/vlcc-tankers-retreated-last-week/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "VLCC tanker rates on the Baltic Exchange routes decreased this week, with the TD3C route (Middle East Gulf/China) falling by almost 47 points to WS1220.63, producing a daily round-trip TCE of $1,303,616 for the standard Baltic VLCC. The TD34 route (Gulf of Oman/China) experienced a sharper decline, losing almost 86 points to WS586.43, resulting in a round-trip TCE of $619,969/day. In the US Gulf/China route (TD22), rates fell by over $5.7 million, resulting in a daily round-trip TCE of just below $451,000.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}