Tanker desk · Wet cargo

A tanker chartering desk that answers with named ships.

Charterers send us a cargo, a contract of affreightment or a period requirement; owners and operators send us Q88s and open positions. We settle the points owners ask first, the charterer of record, the loading terminal, the last three cargoes and the vetting the receiving terminal will apply, then reply by email with a named ship, her position and a freight or hire idea. MR and LR product tankers, Aframax to VLCC crude, chemical parcel tankers, LPG and LNG carriers, bitumen carriers, vegetable oil tankers and the small coastal and bunker fleet.

I need a tanker →I have an open tanker →I have a cargo to price →

Tanker types we charter

Small tankers

2,000–10,000 dwt IMO II/III tankers for base oil, methanol, palm oil and clean products within Southeast Asia

2,000–10,000 dwt

MR / LR product tankers

Medium and long range product tankers for gasoil, jet, gasoline and naphtha cargoes and period employment

MR 45,000–55,000 dwt · LR1 55,000–80,000 dwt · LR2 80,000–120,000 dwt

Crude tankers

Aframax, Suezmax and VLCC tonnage for crude and fuel oil cargoes on voyage and time charter

Aframax 80,000–120,000 dwt · Suezmax 120,000–200,000 dwt · VLCC 200,000–320,000 dwt

Chemical parcel tankers

IMO II stainless and coated parcel tankers of 10,000–50,000 dwt for chemicals, solvents and acids between regions

10,000–50,000 dwt

Gas carriers

Pressurised and semi-refrigerated LPG carriers, VLGCs and LNG carriers on spot and period charter

Pressurised 3,000–7,000 cbm · Semi-ref 7,000–22,000 cbm · VLGC 80,000+ cbm · LNG 125,000–180,000 cbm

Bitumen tankers

Heated bitumen carriers of 3,000–15,000 dwt for bulk bitumen and asphalt from the Gulf and the Med to East Africa, India and West Africa

3,000–15,000 dwt

Vegetable oil tankers

Food-grade IMO II/III tankers for palm, sunflower and soybean oil parcels from Indonesia, Malaysia and the Black Sea

3,000–40,000 dwt

Bunker / coastal tankers

1,000–10,000 dwt bunker barges and coastal product tankers for port supply, coastal distribution and short-sea parcels

1,000–10,000 dwt

How a tanker enquiry is worked

A tanker is fixed on what she carried last as much as on where she is. Before any cargo or period goes to owners we settle the product and its specification, the quantity, the loading and receiving terminals with their draft and manifold arrangements, the laycan or delivery window, the freight or hire basis, and the charterer of record. Then we ask the charterer which vetting standard the receiving terminal applies, because that decides which ships can be offered at all. Only then does the enquiry go to the owners whose ships fit, and only to them.

What owners send us

The Q88 or the ship's particulars: IMO number, flag, class, year built, tank coating or type, number of grades, heating and pumping, SIRE status, current position and open dates, the last three cargoes and a freight or hire idea. Positions go on the board and an owner hears from us only when a cargo or a period fits the ship. Nothing goes out under a ship's name until the owner has approved the charterer.

What we do not do

Circulate a cargo or a position to a list. Each goes only to the counterparties it fits.
Introduce parties to each other. The desk stays in the middle until a fixture is agreed.
Work any cargo, ship, terminal, counterparty or route subject to UN, US, EU, UK or Swiss sanctions. Every counterparty and every ship is screened, by name and IMO number, before an offer.
Offer a ship whose recent port calls cannot be explained, whatever her certificates say.
Follow up. If you do not reply, we assume the answer is no.

Lanes we work most

The Arabian Gulf and the Red Sea into East Africa and India; West Africa coastal distribution, bunkering and period employment; Indonesia, Malaysia and the Black Sea edible oil parcels into India, the Gulf and the Mediterranean; chemical and base oil parcels within Southeast Asia; and bitumen from Gulf and Mediterranean refineries to East Africa, South Asia and West Africa.

Positions and cargoes to desk-a005f1@in.laycandesk.com; anything else to hello@laycandesk.com. Email only: several brokers work each file, and the thread is the record. Dry cargo is on the chartering desk page.