Oeyvind Lindeman
Analyst · Stifel. Please go ahead
Yes, I think just if you're talking about barrels, US East Coast is of course near Europe and the Mediterranean consuming market compared to Gulf. The only existing export terminal in U.S. East Coast today is as David referred to Marcus Hook and if you are talking 200,000, 300,000 barrels a day throughput, I mean you are talking big numbers. Just as a reference, our ships handy gas carriers, we carry 150,000 barrels per cargo, per shipment. We as you see is about 500,000. So, I mean you are talking to introduce efficiency on these terminal projects from the East Coast, you are taking handy gas carriers and upwards in my opinion going to Europe, going to even to Caribbean competing with the U.S. Gulf exports from Caribbean markets, South America. And then of course the larger ships will then headed off to Asia the longer distances, so I mean I think the cut-off point is below 15,000 cubes, 100,000 barrel shipments and then you go up from there. It all depends on court restrictions on the receiving side, I mean European courts, some of them cannot accept larger ships and so forth, draft issues length overall. It’s a host of different factors that will influence the ships size and the export corresponding to those. And then on the Greenfield or terminal on the East Coast, I mean talking about new terminals, it’s hugely expensive to introduce fully functioned chilling capacity. So, I mean when our ship starts to [indiscernible] ships you can essentially just hook up to the pipe and lower ambient propane and then we become the largest ship, so it all depends on the infrastructure both size of the pond.