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  • New LNG dual-fuel tanker to back Minerva Bunkering operations in Singapore

    14 October 2024
    Business Developments & Projects, Green Marine, Infrastructure, Vessels

    Marine fuels supplier Minerva Bunkering has taken delivery of a new LNG dual-fuel bunker tanker that will support the company’s operations in the port of Singapore. The 8,000 dwt vessel named Amalthea was built by Jinagmen Hangtong Shipyard in China and officially delivered to Minerva Bunkering at a ceremony held on October 8, 2024, at […]

  • MPA, Yara join ammonia-fuelled tanker initiative

    23 February 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Environment, Outlook & Strategy, Transition, Vessels, Vision

    The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) and Norwegian fertilizer company Yara International ASA have joined the ammonia-fuelled tanker project launched a year ago.

  • Dryships Enters Tanker Segment, Purchases 12 Newbuilds

    28 December 2010

    DryShips Inc. (NASDAQ:DRYS) announced that it has entered into agreements with a first class Korean shipyard to purchase twelve high specification newbuilding tankers at a total purchase price of about $770 million, including over $3 million per vessel in extra items.

  • TOP Ships Sells Its Only Two MR1 Tankers

    6 January 2020
    Business & Finance

    TOP Ships disposed of its only two medium range (MR) 1 product/chemical tankers.

  • GulfNav Partners Up with Mena Energy on Oil Tankers

    18 December 2016
    Business & Finance

    Dubai-based shipping company Gulf Navigation Holding PJSC (GulfNav) has entered into a strategic alliance with compatriot energy trading firm Mena Energy to cooperate in leasing, acquisition and commercial management of oil tankers. Under the agreement, GulfNav intends to acquire or order up to 12 vessels for carrying crude and petroleum products that would be time-chartered to Mena […]

  • Q3 2017 Bottom of Current Tanker Market Cycle

    12 October 2017

    The third quarter of 2017 has seen tanker fleet utilization drop to levels last seen in 2013, according to the latest report from Clarksons Platou Securities. The fundamentally soft conditions in the market were further aggravated by seasonal weakness and reductions in Saudi Arabia’s crude exports in August. The export cuts have pushed down daily earnings […]

  • Desgagnés Christens, Launches Polar Class Tanker Duo

    24 June 2019
    Business & Finance

    The dual fuel/LNG vessels Paul A. Desgagnés and Rossi A. Desgagnés were built at the Besiktas shipyard.

  • Greece: Navios Announces MR2 Product Tanker Delivery

    13 November 2012

    Navios Maritime Acquisition Corporation, an owner and operator of tanker vessels, announced that the Nave Aquila, a new building MR2 product tanker vessel of 49,991 dwt, was delivered on November 9, 2012 from a South Korean shipyard. The Nave Aquila has been chartered out to a high quality counterparty for three years at a rate […]

  • Wilhelmsen helps tankers meet new IMO regulations

    1 September 2010
    Rules & Regulation

    Wilhelmsen Ships Service is launching a new initiative to assist its tanker operator customers in adapting to new regulations regarding the testing and supplying of fire-fighting foam. The initiative, in which the company has set up a network of testing stations, follows the International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) revised requirements for testing protein-based, alcohol-resistant (PB AR) […]

  • Maersk Tankers’ fleet sees 20 pct growth in 2020

    16 December 2020
    Business Developments & Projects, Vessels

    Denmark-based tanker owner and operator Maersk Tankers has increased its managed fleet by more than 20% so far this year following the latest deal signed with Xihe Holdings (Xihe), the 60% holding company for Singapore’s tanker ship owner Xihe Group of Companies.

  • Building of largest oil tanker begins in Dung Quat

    31 October 2006

    The Dung Quat Shipbuilding Industry Corporation on October 30 began building a 104,000-tonne oil tanker named “Dung Quat 01”, the largest of its kind built in Vietnam so far. The construction, which uses technology from Poland, will be supervised by the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS).

  • Denmark: Norden Orders Four MR Product Tankers

    1 June 2011
    Business & Finance

      NORDEN has ordered 4 MR product tankers from the Korean yard STX Offshore & Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. The vessels which have a cargo capacity of 49,600 dwt. are scheduled for delivery in the first and second quarters of 2013. NORDEN has options on 2 additional vessels from the yard. The vessels will be equipped […]

  • IMB: Pirates Fire at Tanker, Bulker off Nigeria

    28 January 2019

    Armed pirates attempted to attack two ships in two separate incidents off Nigeria last week, IMB said.

  • Hyundai Heavy delivers MEGI LNG tanker to Knutsen

    26 September 2016
    Vessels

    South Korean shipbuilding giant Hyundai Heavy Industries on Monday said it has delivered a 176,000-cbm LNG carrier to Norwegian shipping company Knutsen. The LNG tanker named La Mancha Knutsen is equipped with Hyundai Heavy’s newly developed gas treatment system. The system includes an M-type, electronically controlled, gas injection (MEGI) engine, a boil-off gas (BOG) high-pressure […]

  • Thun Tankers christens LNG-fueled Thun Venern in Stockholm

    12 September 2019
    Vessels

    Sweden’s Thun Tankers on Wednesday named its 18,000-dwt duel-fuel product/chemical tanker Thun Venern in Stockholm. 

  • Gunmen seize Indonesian gas tanker in Malacca Strait

    13 March 2005

    A gang of 35 pirates armed with machine guns and rocket launchers seized a fully-laden gas tanker in the Malacca Strait at the weekend, a piracy watchdog reported Monday, rekindling fears of a terroristattack in the vital waterway. The ship has been released but the captain and chief engineer were kidnapped and the pirates are […]

  • SOCAR Buys Seven Tankers from Palmali Shipping

    15 March 2017
    Business & Finance

    Azerbaijan’s national oil company The State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR) has bought seven tankers from Turkish shipping firm Palmali Shipping, according to data provided by VesselsValue.  The price of the seven ships, which encompass two Suezmaxes and five Aframaxes, was not disclosed. SOCAR confirmed to World Maritime News that the company acquired the aforementioned ships, […]

  • Gibraltar Releases Seized Iranian Tanker Grace 1

    16 August 2019
    Business & Finance

    The officials have revoked the vessel’s earlier specified detention with effect from August 15.

  • Pyxis Tankers Arranges USD 4.8 Million Private Placement

    7 December 2017
    Business & Finance

    Pyxis Tankers has arranged a USD 4.8 million private placement in an effort to improve its financial structure.

  • Panama Canal Handles First Suezmax Oil Tanker

    19 August 2016
    Business & Finance

    The Panama Canal has marked another milestone with the first-ever transit of a Suezmax crude oil tanker which started its journey through the expanded locks yesterday, the Panama Canal confirmed on its twitter account. The vessel in question is the 2016-built Aegean Unity arriving to the new locks from the US West Coast port of Martinez, according to […]

  • TOP Tankers Announces Delivery of the First Drybulk Vessel

    13 November 2007

    TOP Tankers Inc today announced that it has taken delivery of the M/V BERTRAM, a 73,506 DWT Panamax drybulk vessel, built in 1995 in South Korea. The vessel has been financed with secured bank debt. The M/V BERTRAM is the first of six drybulk vessel deliveries for the fourth quarter 2007 and first quarter 2008. […]

  • Oil tanker catches fire at Equinor’s Sture terminal

    13 September 2019

    Equinor’s emergency response center on Friday received reports of a fire in the engine room of the tanker Dubai Harmony. The ship is moored at the quayside at the Sture terminal in Øygarden municipality in Hordaland, Norway. 

  • Hijacked Korea oil tanker ‘anchors near Somalia’

    8 April 2010

    South Korea says a super-tanker hijacked by pirates in the Indian Ocean has anchored about 7km (four miles) off the coast of Somalia. The foreign ministry in Seoul said the 300,000-ton ship, laden with crude oil, arrived late on Wednesday. The South Korean news agency Yonhap reported that the owner of the ship had made […]

  • Equinor to charter two electric hybrid newbuilds from Bergen Tankers

    23 December 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Green Marine, Infrastructure, Vessels

    Norway-based shipping company Bergen Tankers and compatriot energy giant Equinor have executed a long-term time charter party for two oil/chemical tanker newbuilds with electric hybrid propulsion systems.

  • First Tanker at Crude Oil Export Facility in Iraq

    12 March 2012
    Business & Finance

    Leighton Offshore has announced that following the successful hydrostatic testing of the onshore and offshore pipeline systems and subsequent final commissioning of the offshore export facility, crude oil was now flowing to a single point mooring (SPM) installed under the $799m Iraq Crude Oil Export Expansion Project (ICOEEP) Phase 1 in Iraq. The first tanker […]