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  • Product Tanker BW Rhine Released off Nigeria

    4 May 2012
    Business & Finance

      Product tanker BW Rhine has been released off Nigeria by its captors. All 24 crew members are safe. At 0630 UTC today, communications were re-established with the vessel. The Master of BW Rhine Captain Dheeraj Sharma confirmed that the vessel has been held under duress while the cargo was being stolen. “We are all […]

  • Tanker’s Anchor Pierces Test Torpedo, Drags It into Portland

    16 October 2017

    Maltese-flagged oil/chemical tanker Skaw Provider hooked a historic test torpedo by its anchor and dragged it into Portland, UK. The unexploded device had been pierced by the fluke of the anchor as it landed on the seabed, and had then been dragged up from around a 15-metre depth, the Royal Navy said. Members of the […]

  • Video: Teekay’s Tanker Market Update – April 2015

    17 April 2015
    Business & Finance

    Teekay Tankers, part of Teekay Group, operates a fleet of over 95 tankers, including aframax, long range (LR), medium range (MR), suezmax and very large crude carrier (VLCC) vessels. In this video, Chrisitian Waldegrave, Head of Research at Teekay, is offering insights into global tanker market for the month of April, 2015.

  • BW converts DSME LNG tanker order to FSRU

    3 August 2016
    Vessels

    Singapore-based gas shipping giant BW said it has amended its LNG tanker orders it has with South Korea’s Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME). BW adjusted orders for two LNG tankers ordered in September 2014, and two in September last year, a BW spokeswoman confirmed to LNG World News on Wednesday. The biggest change is that […]

  • Hudong Zhonghua Receives Order of Six Chemical Tankers

    9 November 2012

    Hudong Zhonghua, a CSSC-affiliated shipyard in Shanghai, has received an order of six chemical tankers from Norwegian owner Stolt-Nielsen. The shipyard has already sign agreement of constructing six 38,000dwt chemical tankers, the first chemical tanker project for the yard. More orders for the yard may follow: “We are also bidding to construct two 30,000 cbm […]

  • Pemex Works on Leveling Fire-Stricken Tanker Burgos

    28 September 2016
    Business & Finance

    After the fire aboard the 40,263 dwt tanker Burgos was extinguished, the operator of the vessel, the Mexican state-owned petroleum company Mexican Petroleums (Pemex), launched the works on leveling the ship. The efforts in this second phase of operation on the tanker continued in the port area, where the vessel is currently located. A fence was placed with marine barriers surrounding […]

  • TEN Secures Charter Extension for Its Handysize Tanker

    11 February 2014
    Business & Finance

    Tsakos Energy Navigation Ltd. has entered into the time charter renewal of a 2004 built, double hull Handysize product tanker with a major national end-user for a period of twelve months. The new charter commenced in February 2014 and is expected to generate gross revenues of approximately $6.0 million during the corresponding period. Currently, TEN’s […]

  • Oil Aboard Iranian Tanker Sold to Unknown Buyer

    27 August 2019

    The government spokesman said that the owner and purchaser of the oil will decide the destination of the cargo.

  • Gaslog adds another LNG tanker to its fleet

    1 July 2014
    Vessels

    GasLog took the delivery of the fully owned LNG carrier Solaris, from Samsung Heavy Industries. She immediately commenced a medium-term charter to Shell Tankers Singapore, a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell, GasLog said in a statement. The vessel is a 155,000 cubic meter tri-fuel Diesel Electric (TFDE) LNG carrier that sets new standards for efficient performance […]

  • Second LNG-Ready Product Tanker Joins Crowley

    24 December 2015
    Business & Finance

    Jacksonville-based Crowley Maritime Corp. took delivery of Texas, the second of four new, Jones Act, LNG-ready product tankers, from Philly Shipyard, Inc. (PSINC), the sole operating subsidiary of Philly Shipyard ASA. The 50,000 dwt, 330,000-barrel-capacity Texas joins sister ship Ohio, which was received by Crowley in October, as the first ever tanker to receive the […]

  • Bosphorus blocked by protest against oil tanker traffic

    13 June 2005

    Maritime traffic in the Bosphorus Strait halted for an hour Sunday as some 1,000 boats carrying Turkish environmental activists clogged the narrow waterway in a demonstration against the passage of oil tankers, Anatolia news agency reported. The protesters brandished banners reading “Let’s join hands to protect the Bosphorus” and “I love Istanbul” as the boats […]

  • Norden names first of six MR product tankers

    29 October 2009

    Norden has named six new medium range (MR) product tankers built by Japan’s Imabari Shipbuilding. The most recent addition to Norden’s tanker fleet was the 48,006DWT MR product tanker, named ‘Nord Imagination’. The ceremony was held at the Iwagi Zosen Shipyard, one of eight yards in the Seto Inland Sea region which together form Imabari […]

  • Mexico: LNG Tanker Due at Altamira Next Week

    9 March 2012

    Altamira liquefied natural gas terminal in Mexico is due to receive a cargo of LNG from Qatar next week, according to shipping data. The cargo is being hauled by the 210,000 cbm Al Ruwais tanker, and it is expected to arrive on March 16. Last year, Vopak and Enagas have reached an agreement with Shell, […]

  • Russian icebreaker escorts tanker to U.S. polar station

    6 February 2006

    The Russian icebreaker Krasin of the Far East sea shipping company has escorted the tanker Lawrence H. GIANELLA to McMurdo station of the United States’ National Science Foundation in the Antarctic.

  • BP gets third double-hull tanker for Alaska

    27 November 2005

    BP Oil Shipping Co. USA said the third of four Alaska-class double-hull crude oil tankers being built by National Steel & Shipbuilding Co. (Nassco), San Diego, was delivered Nov. 22. The fourth ship will be delivered in late 2006.

  • AMSC Expects Strong Jones Act Tanker Market

    13 February 2015
    Business & Finance

    The U.S. Jones Act tanker operator American Shipping Company (AMSC) ended 2014 with USD 23 million net profit, almost USD 8 million less than what it earned in 2013. The Norway-based shipper recorded USD 87.6 million and USD 87.3 million operating revenues for the full year 2014 and 2013, while EBITDA for the full year 2014 and […]

  • Sovcomflot CEO: LNG to fuel future tanker industry

    10 April 2017

    Liquefied natural gas (LNG) as fuel will play a significant role in increasing the environmental compatibility and efficiency of the large-capacity vessels in the future, according to Sovcomflot’s president and CEO Sergey Frank.

  • Tanker Sinks Causing Oil Spill Offshore Thailand

    9 April 2014
    Business & Finance

    A tanker carrying oil sludge sank offshore Thailand on Tuesday causing an oil spill in the area. The vessel sank in the vicinity of Maha Chai Gulf, about four kilometers from the coast of Pak Klong Pramong, Bernama reported. Marine Department officials immediately spread the dispersant to prevent the expansion of the spill. The crew […]

  • Alaskan tanker stable pending new refloat try

    3 February 2006

    A grounded tanker carrying nearly 5 million gallons of oil and gasoline was stable on Friday as crews in Alaska awaited high tide to try again to float the ship, the vessel’s owner said.

  • China: Naming Ceremony for Third Bernhard Schulte’s Tanker

    31 August 2012

    The Naming Ceremony for 25,000 DWT IMO II Chemical/Product Tanker (MD096) was successfully held in Nantong prince dock today. On the ceremony, God mother Mrs. Pinker named the vessel “Reinhold Schulte”. More than one hundred people attended the ceremony, including friends from Bernhard Schulte, SMC, DNV and trading house as well as Shipyard’s own employees. […]

  • Belgium: LNG Tanker Due at Zeebrugge Oct 27

    10 October 2013
    Vessels

    The Al Jassasiya LNG tanker, with a capacity of 145,800 cubic metres, is due to arrive in the Zeebrugge liquefied natural gas terminal from Qatar on October 27, according to the Port of Zeebrugge website. Fluxys Belgium, the operator of the LNG terminal, said that during the first half of 2013, 18 ships were unloaded at […]

  • Tanker Officer Dies due to Poor Safety Culture

    26 February 2019
    Rules & Regulation

    The officer fell into the water while trying to prevent damage the accommodation ladder because of ebb tide.

  • APSI Cuts Steel for Crowley’s First Product Tanker

    7 January 2014

    Aker Philadelphia Shipyard, Inc. (APSI), the wholly-owned U.S. subsidiary of Aker Philadelphia Shipyard ASA, launched production activities yesterday on the first product tanker that it is building for its joint venture with Crowley. Crowley and APSI have signed contracts for the first four tankers, with a total contract value of approximately $500 million. A small […]

  • AKPS Sells Interests in Two Tankers to Crowley (USA)

    1 April 2014
    Business & Finance

    Aker Philadelphia Shipyard ASA has entered into an agreement with Crowley for the sale of AKPS’s profit sharing interests in Hulls 17 and 18 for total cash proceeds of USD 40 million. This sale includes the profit sharing on the two product tankers delivered to Crowley in August 2012 (the Pennsylvania) and January 2013 (the […]

  • DNV GL to Class New Methanol-Fuelled Tankers

    22 January 2014
    Business & Finance

    The first four vessels to use DNV GL’s rules for low flashpoint fuels will be a series of 50,000 dwt tankers ordered by the owners Marinvest and Westfal-Larsen. The vessels are the very first to be fuelled by methanol – a fuel that significantly reduces local air emissions. These product carriers which also are prepared […]