Performance Shipping's Aliki Paliou Doubles Suezmax Exposure With Surprise China Order

Performance Shipping doubles Suezmax exposure with $163M China newbuilding order. Aliki Paliou's timing raises industry eyebrows.

Aliki Paliou just made a move that caught half the tanker market off guard. Performance Shipping quietly signed contracts on March 2 for two brand-new Suezmax tankers from Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding, and the timing raises some seriously interesting questions about what the Greek shipowner knows—or thinks she knows—about where the tanker market's h…