While we focus on the oil, it should not also be forgotten that supertankers are in limited supply and that replacing one is a long and expensive process. If one of them goes offline, that means years of reduced transport capacity before it can be replaced.
There are currently over 260 supertankers on order at shipyards worldwide.
Even if one or two get damaged heavily and it will take years to repair fully, some new ones that have been in production for years can replace it. Also unlike normally, a lot of older tankers are being used and preserved rather than dismantled, also increasing the global volume.
Yes but repairs can take months per ship and it doesn’t take long before you start getting loads of ships all waiting for repairs at the same time. Ships are getting hit daily at this point.
Lol I'm the Russian bot? I'm very pro-Ukraine and anti-Russia! I'm juust pro-honesty too and most UKTMO hits were really minor damage and there's no reason to downvote that info.
Brother they sunk two just this week. The count is more than two.
But more importantly, the UKTMO has 104 vessels hit overall and importantly there are a very limited number of countries that can service, repair, and build them.
Its basically just China and South Korea. Losing a single supertanker is 5-20% of total annual new builds depending on the year. Damaging 20 supertankers sets the market back a.year.
Both cargoships this week were the only ships sunk since March. Do you have a name of any ship that was sunk before that (and after March)?
Neither of those two ships are supertankers too.
Yes 104 vessels were hit, and most of those hits are light damage.
There's over 260 supertankers on global orders right now, which is very unlike previous years. So it will be less than 5% and not 5-20% of total new builds this year.
I asked for sunken ships, not for damaged ships. Exploded does not mean sunk... Also that exploded by a mine one is just a claim by IRGC, we have to wait for proper sources to verify it, but I doubt it was by a mine.
There is a supply shortage, but not because of sunken ships, but because routes are way longer and many ships have to wait in gulf of Oman for for example shuttles. But yes, damaged ships needing repair also add to it.
Google is your friend too, just ask google for the names of any sunken ships in recent months. Only 2, both being cargo ships were sunk by Iran, both very very recently.
Average American - Republicans what can yall do to lower gas prices and make groceries and life affordable?
Republicans - Democrats are running people who don’t like BBQ and not men enough. They are too low T. They are doing surgery in the back of elementary school cafeterias.
Imagine admitting that you're running low of ammo during a war 🤣🤣🤣 Also, all those trillions if dollars that America spent on its military? What the hell did that buy?
Yup, corruption has completely hollowed out America from within and the works is now finding out that all that's left is the shell of its corpse. Now we just have to wait for the AI industry to implode and that will be the end of the American experiment.
The best part... if you told Biden he could not support Ukraine because in 2026 Trump would sneak attack Iran by bombing the entire Iran government and military and infrastructure... Biden would not have believed you and kept supporting Ukraine.
Yet Trump saying he started WW3 without a plan, zero prep, and wasted munitions... while being fully aware of the Ukraine/Russia war and low munitions... is somehow not obvious.
Iran's Revolutionary Guard reported that Iranian missiles struck the supertanker and caused it to explode in fire for defying and violating Iran's control of the strait of Hormuz.
Shouldn't this be in the "Strait of Hormuz Megathread"? Let's keep the chokepoints contained there, folks — no need to clog the whole sub with tanker traffic!
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u/nkosugeirc 21h ago
While we focus on the oil, it should not also be forgotten that supertankers are in limited supply and that replacing one is a long and expensive process. If one of them goes offline, that means years of reduced transport capacity before it can be replaced.