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Gerrit Stricker

Gerrit Stricker

Head of LNG at E.A. Gibson Shipbrokers Ltd, leading the firm's LNG team specializing in liquefied natural gas shipping and market services.

Jul 1, 2026

10:23
Gerrit, how has the LNG market adapted to the closure of Hummer's?
10:27
So obviously you can't just take out one fifth of the world's LNG supply and expect markets to not respond pretty strongly.
10:34
Paradoxically, while you might have expected rates to completely crater with so much cargo to base disappearing, we've actually seen the complete opposite happening.
10:42
What's ended up happening is you've had mostly U.S. volumes replacing Qatari volumes where possible, which has obviously greatly increased ton mile demand.
10:52
There are fewer cargoes going far longer distance, and I think you've seen similar effects happening elsewhere on the VLGC market, for example.
11:00
This has also led to some other interesting effects.
11:03
You've had record Russian LNG flows into Europe.
12:52
So I guess all of that sounds pretty positive on a long-term basis then.

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