The surprising countries coming to our rescue as Australia imports diesel from up to 29,000 kilometres away amid fuel crisis (news.com.au)

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Supplied the vessel-tracking analysis underpinning the article's central finding: that Australian diesel sourcing had extended to the United Kingdom, US Gulf Coast, Oman and West Africa, including a single cargo travelling almost 29,000 kilometres from Southwold to Brisbane over 45 days. Quantified April arrivals at more than 100 shipments and identified this as evidence that alternative suppliers exist, while raising the forward concern that Singapore and South Korea would struggle to sustain volumes into May and questioning the durability of the LNG-for-fuel strategy if Asian refiners remain cut off from Gulf crude. Noted the practical trade-offs of US sourcing — six to seven week voyages offset by substantially larger vessel sizes — and observed that Russian crude was entering Asian refinery slates such that Australian imports likely embed Russian-origin barrels.

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Australian diesel import routing from Europe, the Gulf, West Africa and the United States; voyage duration and the limits of the LNG-for-fuel strategy.