Ship Segment

Tankers Market

The wet fleet — VLCC, Suezmax, Aframax and product carriers moving crude oil and refined products.

Fleet

2,815

172.7M dwt

Average age

22.9 yrs

median 21 yrs

Orderbook / fleet

31.8%

895 on order

Secondhand

$383 /dwt

614 sales

Fleet

Fleet Structure

Tracked vessels2,815

Total deadweight172.7M dwt

Average age22.9 yrs

Median age21 yrs

Snapshot date2026-08-27

Age distribution

0-464 (2%)

5-9260 (9%)

10-14272 (10%)

15-19637 (23%)

20-24627 (22%)

25+955 (34%)

Supply

Orderbook & Deployment

On order

895

116M dwt

Orderbook / fleet

31.8%

on-order ÷ in-service

Net supply (1y)

+11.6%

432 due 1y

Deployment

31.6% slow-steaming

44.2% idle

Pricing

Asset Value & Freight

Secondhand benchmark

$383 /dwt

median of 614 sales (12m)

Dirty Tanker Index

2,801 pts

2026-08-27

TC-equivalent

—

not published

Recycling

Recycling Pressure

Median scrap age

25 yrs

structural curve

Demolished (12m)

vessels

LDT recycled (12m)

975k LDT

Scrap rate

2.8%

12m count ÷ fleet

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This overview is a pure rollup over the same data behind our deep analytics pages — it fetches no new source, so it can never drift from them. Fleet, age and orderbook come from our tracked fleet and the orderbook feed; secondhand pricing is the outlier-screened trailing-365d median $/dwt; the freight index is shown under our own generic name (CONTAINER and GAS have no licensed index today and are left blank). Figures are honest to the underlying sample — a thin segment is flagged. Computed 2026-08-27.

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