Shipowners’ appetite for scrubbers grows: Alfa Laval

The shipping industry is increasingly convinced of the business case for installing exhaust gas cleaning equipments...

OPEC output cuts whet Asia’s appetite for North Sea oil

OPEC production cuts have created record Asian demand for European oil and made China the second biggest consumer of North Sea crude as flows from its usual Middle East suppliers dip.

Insurer appetite for Iran crude risk to remain low

Banks, reinsurers and financial institutions have a much lower appetite for risk with regards to crude oil shipping from Iran than in the pre-sanctions era and this will not change in the near future, according to Mike Salthouse, deputy global claims dire

China's voracious oil appetite to help balance OPEC output

Oil prices may have tanked in the past 18 months due to weak demand in the face of a supply surplus, but the...

Chinese appetite for foreign currency expands

experienced a third straight month of deficit in foreign exchange transactions as the country's growing...