Sorting out the demand for tankers bringing products into the Northeastern US is a complicated business. Indeed, the anti-Jones Act propaganda machine, calling for waivers on use of compliant tonnage for coastwise moves, was in full swing, in late October and early November, 2022, as media angst regarding a “diesel shortage” in the northeastern United States, included in Petroleum Area Defense District 1 or “PADD 1”, were running rampant. Tanker watchers, armed with graphics from numerous vessel tracking websites, noted that US-flagged, crewed and owned tankers were calling at terminals in New York harbor. Normally, ... (full story)