At least two foreign-flagged fuel tankers have been tentatively booked to travel between US ports, marking the first such sailings in years after President Donald Trump temporarily waived a century-old shipping mandate in a bid to tame energy inflation.
Sunoco LP has provisionally chartered the PIS Kalimantan, a Panama-flagged vessel, to load on the Gulf Coast on March 21 and 22 and sail to Jacksonville, Florida, according to a shipping report seen by Bloomberg. It’s also chartered another tanker from Norden to carry refined products between New York and Hawaii.
The sailings would be among the first of their kind ...
