First Foreign Tankers Tapped for US Transit Since Trump Waiver

At least two foreign-flagged fuel tankers have been tentatively booked to travel between US ports, marking the first such sailings in years after President Donald Trump temporarily waived a century-old shipping mandate in a bid to tame energy inflation.

Sunoco LP has provisionally chartered the PIS Kalimantan, a Panama-flagged vessel, to load on the Gulf Coast on March 21 and 22 and sail to Jacksonville, Florida, according to a shipping report seen by Bloomberg. It’s also chartered another tanker from Norden to carry refined products between New York and Hawaii.