To add, the cost of damages to shipping would exceed the profits from shipping this oil throughout this war I would think. It takes a lot of trips to make 100 million in profit, let alone the opportunity cost of having them out of operation waiting for repairs, there’s a backlog in the shipyards building these already (mostly china I hear,) as I understand it.

Current VLCC rates are about 800k / day. Average sailing times ex-Gulf to the PRC are about 30 days (including various types of delays).

You don’t happen to have any sort of other information on these new insurance companies I can dig into do you? I guess it’s probably public information if you know where to find it.

There are not really any new ones; that never happened. But there are plenty of bullshit ones who could never pay out. Talking about P&I (property and immunity) rather than H&M (hull and machinery. You can search Lloydslist.com and if you find any articles about this you want, ping me and I'll send them to you.

A "super tanker" (a VLCC or Suezmax) built in 2015 would be about 100m. I new one built today would be between 300m-500m.

Actually in Greek (I don't speak Greek just have a bunch of Greek colleagues) they say good day but also good week and good month.

So, you get emails beginning "Dear RP, kalimera kai kali evdomado kai kalo mina."

Mitmita is the business!

But yeah the majority of aioli you are eating will be mayonnaise based.

Yes especially in North America, and there is nothing wrong with that. But it is in fact a separate sauce and tastes different.

This maybe? https://thegourmetgourmand.com/mekelesha-spice-blend/ Used often in a finishing butter/oil.

I love mayo (make it every week for The Wife an me, kids don't eat because they are big commies) and I love aioli.

Equally I hate to be pedantic, but real aioli has no egg in like mayo does, nor any emulsifiers like mustard. Only garlic and olive oil, sometimes a splash of citrus.

It is a pain in the ass to make yourself, and no short cuts like with mayo. Worth it though.

Do you mean mitmita or berbera? Love them both anyway just curious about the name of yours.

Just a little update - this is in NL, not DE. We have our own home grown asshole nazis without needing to borrow theirs.

No one would suspect that...

For the types of supertankers you probably are thinking of, start to finish five or six years.

If the yard has capacity right when you order it; otherwise add another year or two wait time.

Not necessarily. I'm same as OP, happened also in my 20s (a long damn time ago).

I broke my collar bone a couple of years ago, and when I ran out of pain meds, I would smoke a bit of hash. As in one max two hits on a hash spliff.

The hash helped with the pain for sure, but every single minute I had to do full on mindfulness. Walking to the store about to freak out then reminded my brain "hey that's ok but we are walking now; go back to paying attention to you feet and arms."

I've tried smoking recreationally throughout the years. In the past 25 years I've had a good experience exactly once, and Io am convinced it was because the circumstances were literally perfect for me, mentally and physically.

So yeah even with tiny doses of different strains, it just turned on my and stayed turned. And it sucks, yes.