Only thing that comes to mind is that your cargo might (notionally, at least) be bound for one or another refinery that's offline at the moment. Yes? No?
Perhaps bound for a refinery that was supposed to be back online by now but isn’t?
I can’t see outside of Baytown right now, but it will be interesting to see what the anchorage looks like when we get out of here.
I’m not sure where the stuff we’re carrying will end up just now, but during dinner, we just picked up another order to bring more of the same product back here from Corpus Christi, once we get out of here in a couple of days (?) This makes me suspect that they’re planning on having a destination for the product at some point... I just can’t see hiring us as a floating storage tank for such a hot commodity... (reaching for tinfoil hat)... or can I?
Our cargoes are often sold multiple times each day. It’s possible that this one was intended for a refinery doing maintenance, and therefore at reduced capacity. Chances are, if someone can take it off our hands, they will want to do so quickly, and not waste money. I can’t stress how expensive it is to charter a tanker, especially an American one like ours.