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Hafnia Limited transports refined oil, other petroleum products and certain chemicals for oil companies, chemical companies and commodity traders. It uses owned and chartered-in tankers. Most of its shipping revenue comes from voyage charters, where customers pay for cargo transportation; longer-term time charters provide daily hire payments for an agreed period.
Most of these vessels work through commercial pools that combine participating ships’ revenue and voyage expenses, then share net earnings under an agreed formula. Hafnia also manages other owners’ vessels in these pools for management fees; the vessels’ net shipping earnings go to their owners rather than Hafnia.
The business depends on freight and hire rates and how many days its vessels can earn revenue. Much of the fleet works on short-term contracts linked to the spot market, so earnings respond quickly to changes in cargo demand, shipping distances and available tanker capacity. On voyage charters, Hafnia pays fuel and port costs as well as vessel operating costs; on time charters, customers pay the voyage costs. Vessels must pass inspections and retain required certificates to trade, while sanctions restrict permissible cargoes and counterparties and environmental rules govern fuel and emissions.
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TORM plc competes with Hafnia for customers paying to ship refined oil products in MR, LR1 and LR2 tankers, but Hafnia also owns approximately 14% of TORM. TORM’s mainly spot-market tanker business offers a comparison for Hafnia’s short-term refined-product shipping revenue.
Scorpio Tankers competes globally with Hafnia for customers paying to move refined petroleum products in MR, LR2 and smaller product tankers. Its MR and LR2 newbuildings are worth watching for changes in the fleet serving those overlapping markets.
ARDMORE SHIPPING CORPORATION competes with Hafnia for customers shipping clean petroleum products and chemicals, with both substantially exposed to cargoes booked at spot-market rates. Ardmore’s business carrying multiple product grades and loading or unloading at multiple ports is a useful comparison for Hafnia’s product-and-chemical tanker operations.
International Seaways competes with Hafnia for refined-product shipping customers through its 41 MR, LR1 and LR2 product carriers as of December 31, 2025. Watch its product-carrier business rather than its crude tankers when comparing revenue from individual voyages and longer fixed-rate charters with Hafnia.
Frontline’s LR2/Aframax tankers compete with Hafnia’s long-range petroleum-product shipping business, although most Frontline vessels carry crude oil for major oil companies and large oil traders. Its LR2/Aframax business is therefore the part to watch for Hafnia, rather than treating all of Frontline’s shipping revenue as comparable.
Tsakos Energy Navigation Ltd. (TEN) competes with Hafnia for petroleum-product shipping business. TEN also has substantial crude and other tanker businesses, so its product tankers—not the whole company—are the closer comparison for Hafnia.
Teekay Tankers competes with Hafnia for refined-product shipping business through its LR2 tankers. Its larger crude-tanker business relies heavily on freight booked at spot-market rates, so its overall results are not a pure comparison for Hafnia’s product tankers.
Scorpio Tankers Inc. earningsSTNG
Scorpio Tankers’ report will show how its MR and LR2 fleet is doing in the refined-product markets where it competes with Hafnia for cargoes.
Focus on Scorpio Tankers’ MR and LR2 vessel earnings and fleet changes, including newbuild deliveries. Strong earnings in the overlapping vessel classes alongside added capacity would suggest cargo demand and rates are supporting more ships, potentially making it harder for Hafnia to win cargoes. Weaker earnings would show pressure at this competitor, but would not by itself prove Hafnia’s rates are falling.
ARDMORE SHIPPING CORPORATION earningsASC
Ardmore Shipping’s report will show whether clean-product and chemical spot voyages earn enough after voyage costs in markets it shares with Hafnia.
Compare Ardmore’s voyage revenue with voyage expenses such as fuel and port charges. Revenue strengthening relative to costs would indicate firmer rates for the clean-product and chemical cargoes it carries, a constructive signal for the spot market Hafnia also serves. Revenue lagging costs would point to pressure in that shared market, though differences in vessel and cargo mix mean Ardmore’s result is not Hafnia’s result.
TORM plc earningsTRMD
TORM’s report will show how spot shipping is performing in the MR, LR1 and LR2 markets it shares with Hafnia, which also owns a stake in TORM.
Look at charter revenue and voyage expenses for TORM’s product-tanker classes, not its total results as if they were all about product shipping. Stronger results in the overlapping vessel classes would suggest firmer spot-shipping conditions for Hafnia; weaker results would point to pressure in the same market. TORM’s performance also bears on the value of Hafnia’s shareholding, a separate path from Hafnia’s vessel operations.
Hafnia Limited earningsThis company
Hafnia’s report will show whether spot freight rates are lifting what its product tankers earn per day, after voyage costs.
Read average daily TCE income—charter income after voyage expenses—alongside voyage-charter revenue and voyage costs such as fuel and port charges. Higher daily TCE with costs not absorbing most of the gain would show better spot rates reaching Hafnia’s vessels. Flat or lower daily TCE, or costs offsetting revenue gains, would show rates or voyage expenses still squeezing this spot-exposed shipowner.
