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Oil Supertanker Earnings on Mideast Route Near $510,000 a Day

gCaptain Trade press Published 18th August 2026 United States

What the source reported

Source-reported

Earnings for a supertanker procuring crude oil from within the Persian Gulf to Asia are nearing a two-month high, as exporters hunt for more vessels to deliver the fuel via the Strait of Hormuz even as the security situation remains uncertain.

Publication
gCaptain · Trade Publication
Published
18th August 2026
Original report
gcaptain.com

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What ProcIntel recorded

ProcIntel-derived
Category
Supply Chain & Logistics
Geography
United States
Organisations
None identified
Collected
18th August 2026 · 12:09

Initial assessment ProcIntel's automatic, provisional read of this individual Signal -- Initial Significance and Initial Confidence, computed deterministically before any Event extraction or human review.

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Significance 2 · Moderate
Confidence 2 · Low

Initial Significance Moderate (26.0/100). Strongest contributor: Procurement Impact (12.0/30 points). Limiting factor: Geographic Breadth (0.0/10 points). Initial Confidence Low (39.0/100, data sufficiency: Partial). Strongest contributor: Source Authority (20.0/40 points). Limiting factor: Extraction Quality (3.0/15 points).

Strongest contributor
Procurement Impact
Limiting factor
Geographic Breadth
Possibly the same underlying story as Supertankers on Mideast Route Reach $510K a Day in Earnings — flagged automatically, never merged automatically.