石油圈中国石化新闻网讯 据路透社伦敦路透社报道，随着越来越多的船只投入使用，LNG油轮的现货租赁价格不断好转，如果未来几个月亚洲需求上升，这将有助于增加液化天然气贸易。 LNG租船费率是现货LNG贸易的一个关键组成部分，决定了超冷气体的运输方式。租船利率通常遵循LNG的价格，由于亚洲买家需求疲软，LNG价格自9月份以来一直在下跌。 在今年的大部分时间里，租船费率一直居高不下，上月达到约每天19.5万美元。 近几个月来，由于航运费率高，大西洋现货货物东行的数量并不多, 一些公司不得不安排货物互换以降低成本。 但船舶经纪人告诉路透社记者，随着越来越多的船只可以进行临时包租，船费在11月底已降至每天约16万美元。一位消息人士称，周二，一艘现代船只的现货价格达到了每天14万美元。 一位业内人士表示，周一有四艘船在12月开租，而另一位预测本月将有10艘船可以开租，还有更多的船将在卸载浮动货物后进入市场。 该行业消息人士称，从12月初起，大宗商品交易公司托克将租用圣地亚哥号油轮长达3个月。 然而，租船费率仍高于去年的水平，从12月到3月，当时的费率大多低于每天10万美元。 一位液化天然气交易员称：“航运费率非常高，目前没有太多利润空间，这限制了从大西洋到太平洋流域的运输。 明年初的需求仍主要来自亚太地区，如美国埃克森美孚、全球采矿和资源公司必和必拓以及澳大利亚太平洋LNG项目，它们正在寻找船只，以便在明年1月上半月从澳大利亚的LNG出口工厂装货。 但一些船舶经纪人表示，由于供应可能超过需求，租船费率可能会继续下降。 詹晓晶摘自路透社 原文如下： Rising ship supply helps ease LNG charter rates Inflated spot charter rates for liquefied natural gas (LNG) tankers are easing as more ships becoming available, which could help increase LNG trade if Asian demand rises in coming months. LNG charter rates are a key component of spot LNG trade, dictating the way the super-cooled gas is transported. Charter rates usually follow the price of LNG, which has fallen since September due to sluggish demand from Asian buyers. Rates have remained high for most of this year, hitting around $195,000 last month. Not many spot Atlantic cargoes have traveled east in recent months due to inflated shipping rates, with some companies having to arrange cargo swaps to reduce costs. But as more vessels become available for spot charters, rates have dropped to around $160,000 per day at the end of November, shipbrokers told Reuters. One source said the spot rate for a modern vessel reached $140,000 per day on Tuesday. Four ships became open on Monday for December charter, one industry source said, while another predicted that overall up to 10 will become available for charter this month, with more coming to the market after floating cargoes are unloaded. Commodities trading firm Trafigura was offering the Gaslog Santiago tanker for up to three months from early December, the industry sources said. However, rates are still higher than last year’s level, between the months of December and March, when they were mostly below $100,000 per day. “Shipping [rates are] very high, [meaning] there is not much room for work at the moment,” an LNG trader said, referring to how this had limited movements from the Atlantic to the Pacific basin. Demand for early next year is still mostly from the Asia-Pacific basin, such as U.S.-based ExxonMobil, Global mining and resources company BHP and the Australia Pacific LNG project which are looking for ships to load from Australia-based export plants in the first half of January. But some shipbrokers said charter rates will likely continue to fall, as supply could outweigh demand.
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