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Oil glut turns tankers into tanks

Apr 22, 2020 | Ship Report Podcasts

Off the west coast of the US, there’s an odd sort of ship showing up these days: oil tankers, more than two dozen off California, that have come there not to deliver or pickup up cargo, but to sit at anchor and store it, as petroleum futures hit record lows.

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