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Clare Grierson

Clare Grierson

Head of Tanker Research at SSY Global (Simpson Spence Young), shipping industry analyst specializing in tanker markets

Jun 28, 2026

9:01
How is that going down with the shipping community? Are you hearing anything from ship owners, how they feel about that?
9:07
Well, I think, first of all, to sort of talk about what Iran has said it's going to do.
9:11
So it's the Persian Gulf Strait Authority, and they've said that they sort of are in charge, be it for a better word, of the Strait of Hormuz.
9:22
And so after the MOU was signed, the PGSA actually came out and they said that ships must submit transit requests during the 60-day period.
9:33
There have been discussions that there are going to be tolls placed, be it in the form of maybe an insurance fee or a safety and environmental fee.
9:43
We don't really know yet what that will be.
9:46
What we heard that under the MOU agreement was that transit through the Straits of Hormuz for 60 days will be toll free.
12:06
yeah no absolutely i mean how do you think again there's a lot of hypotheticals here i i appreciate that but in terms of should it open how is that going to affect um asian demand for atlantic crude

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