Platts podcast: Low Rhine levels limit flow of gasoil; keep freight rates high

In this podcast, Richard Turner and Brian Murphy, editors for Platts european oil team, discuss the impact of low Rhine water levels on the gasoil barge market in Northwest Europe; the inability to barges to load to anywhere near their dead-weight capacity; and how the Rhine barge freight rates between Rotterdam and Karlsruhe have hit a 2009 high.