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More scrapping needed to revive tanker market
(Shipping Times)
August 9, 1999
[LONDON]
Large scale tanker scrapping in the immediate future is the only medicine likely to put life this year into a freight market flat out on its back, shipping sources say.
"The only medicine that will cure the market is scrapping," Norway's Bassoe Shipbrokers said in its July market report.
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