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The accident has not been attributed to crew fatigue, at least not yet, but the accident investigation committee must diligently investigate that possibility [ ]on its most recent quarterly earnings report in mid-August, A P Moeller Maersk-the world\'s largest containership owner-named crewing and the ability to make crew changes as its biggest threat to operations The Port of Miami has run out of docking space for idling cruise ships, even as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U S Coast Guard keep extending their \'no sail\' orders for cruise ships MARITIME SECTORS EXPOSED TO THE ENERGY INDUSTRY The Tanker Market COVID-19 obviously brought a collapse in oil and petroleum product demand as people stopped commuting (think of gasoline and diesel fuel, approximately 58% of refinery output) and flying (think of jet fuel, approximately 12% of the international petroleum products market) Figure 1 shows the Baltic Exchange freight indices for \'dirty tankers\' (crude oil tankers) and \'clean tankers\' (petroleum products and chemicals), Baltic Dirty Tanker Index (BDTI) and Baltic Clean Tanker Index (BCTI), along with the better known Baltic Dry Index (BDI) for the dry bulk market
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