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  • PHOTO: Teekay’s new shuttle tanker for Canadian offshore oil

    26 October 2017

    Teekay Offshore has taken delivery of the first Heritage Class shuttle tankers to be used to ship oil from Canada’s Atlantic Ocean offshore oil installations. The vessel Beothuk Spirit will be followed by Norse Spirit tanker slated for delivery in the first half of November 2017, followed by Dorset Spirit in early-2018. According to Teekay, the […]

  • Coast Guard medevacs oil tanker captain off Alabama

    14 April 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Human Capital, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy, Safety, Vessels

    The U.S. Coast Guard has performed an evacuation via helicopter of a 69-year-old captain from an oil tanker 218 miles offshore Alabama.

  • LNG-powered tanker Fure Viten ready for maiden voyage

    9 June 2021
    Infrastructure, Vessels

    Fure Viten, Swedish shipowner Furetank’s LNG-powered tanker, will soon start its maiden voyage from China shipyard to Europe.

  • Taiwan: LNG Tanker Due at Yung-An LNG Terminal This Week

    11 October 2012
    Vessels

    Taiwan’s Yung-An LNG terminal is due to receive a cargo of liquefied natural gas this week, according to Kaohsiung Port Authority. The Golar Mazo tanker, with a capacity of 135,000 cbm, will reach Yung-An terminal on October 14. The Yung-An terminal is Taiwan’s first liquefied natural gas receiving terminal, and it is operated by CPC. […]

  • Croatia: 3. MAJ Delivers Tanker ‘SAO DOMINGOS SAVIO’

    4 March 2013

    Croatian shipbuilder 3. MAJ delivered tanker ‘SAO DOMINGOS SAVIO’ to the Swedish company WISBY TANKERS on 1 March 2013. The tanker, designed to carry concrete, oil and chemicals, is 133 meters long and 23 meters wide. The newbuild features the loading capacity of 15,000 DWT and is propelled by the 3.MAJ-Wartsila 6 RT Flex 35 engine […]

  • Pirates Kidnap 20 Seafarers from Tanker off Benin

    16 December 2019

    The incident has been described as “the largest kidnapping event in West Africa within 2019”.

  • LNG Tanker Al-Ghuwairiya Docks at Ras Laffan (Qatar)

    21 June 2011

    A significant milestone was reached on 21st June 2011 when the LNG tanker “Al-Ghuwairiya” berthed at Ras Laffan to load her LNG cargo bound for Canaport, Canada. The Qatargas chartered vessel is one of the new generation Q-Max LNG tanker able to load a full LNG cargo of 260,000 cubic meters. The vessel is owned […]

  • UK Helps Rescue Crew of Sunken Tanker off Yemen

    27 June 2017

    The UK Coastguard have coordinated a long range rescue after an oil tanker sank 240 miles off the coast of Yemen in the early morning hours on June 26. The coastguard received reports of a mayday distress call issued by the oil tanker, which is registered under a Panamanian flag, reporting that it was sinking. The […]

  • SIU Canada Urges Algoma Tankers to Stop Strike Breaking

    27 October 2017
    Business & Finance

    The Seafarers’ International Union of Canada (SIU) has called on shipping company Algoma Tankers to “cease illegal strike breaking”. Namely, after Canadian officers commenced legal strike actions on October 21, Algoma Tankers Limited temporarily employed foreign workers in Canada. The SIU has also contacted the federal department of Economic & Social Development Canada (ESDC), as the […]

  • UK: XER, Teekay Ink LoI for Provision of Shuttle Tanker

    14 December 2011
    Business & Finance

    Xcite Energy announces that its 100% subsidiary, Xcite Energy Resources Limited (“XER”), has signed a letter of intent (“LoI”) with Teekay Shipping Norway AS (“Teekay”) for the provision of a shuttle tanker for the forthcoming Phase 1A of the Bentley field development programme. The LoI anticipates that XER and Teekay will enter into a definitive […]

  • TEN welcomes its first LNG-powered Aframax tanker

    6 October 2023
    Business Developments & Projects, Green Marine, Infrastructure, Vessels

    Greek shipping company Tsakos Energy Navigation (TEN) has taken delivery of its first newbuild LNG-powered Aframax tanker. According to TEN, the Njord DF vessel is the first in a series of four high-spec eco-designed vessels built against long-term employment to a major European state-owned oil concern. The company ordered six LNG-powered tankers – four Aframax […]

  • Shipping, bunkering companies launch new initiative to ‘revolutionize’ ARA bunkering market

    23 July 2025
    Collaboration, Outlook & Strategy, Vision

    Several shipping and bunkering companies have come together to launch a Bunkering Services Initiative focused on solving the widely reported issues of fuel quantity shortages and fuel quality opacity across the marine fuel supply chain.

  • Euronav Steers Back to Black amid Strong Tanker Market

    28 January 2016
    Business & Finance

    Belgium’s shipping company Euronav NV has reported a net profit of USD 104.7 million in its non-audited financial results for the fourth quarter of 2015 against a net loss of USD 3.9 million posted in the same period last year. EBITDA for the fourth quarter 2015 was USD 160.6 million, also up from last year’s USD 67.6 million. For […]

  • Zvezda cuts steel for another Arctic LNG 2 tanker

    19 January 2021
    Infrastructure, Vessels

    The Zvezda Shipbuilding Complex in the Russian Far East has cut the first steel for a new Arc7 ice-class LNG tanker for the Arctic LNG 2 project.

  • Turkey: Besiktas Shipyard Launches New Tanker Named Mugan

    30 November 2011

    Launching ceremony of new 7,100 DWT tanker, named Mugan, took place yesterday, November 29, 2011 at Besiktas Shipyard, Yalova. It is the fifth out of ten tankers of Armada series of Project RST22M that Palmali Group ordered from Besiktas Shipyard. Besiktas Shipyard plans to perform the order by the end of 2013 and four of these […]

  • Turkey: Besiktas Shipyard Delivers Tanker Mugan to Palmali Group

    13 February 2012

      The fifth tanker of Armada type built by Besiktas Shipyard in Yalova, Turkey, named Mugan, has sailed from the Shipyard on February 11, 2012. The vessel is a 7,100 DWT tanker, under Armada series, of Project RST22M that Palmali Group ordered from Besiktas Shipyard. The Project RST22M product tankers are successors of Project 005RST01, […]

  • Samjin Shipbuilding Secures Tanker Orders from Anglo-Atlantic

    7 October 2013
    Business & Finance

    Anglo-Atlantic Steamship Company Limited has placed an order for two 50,000 dwt, IMO II class, Chemical Tankers from Samjin Shipbuilding Industries Co. Ltd., in China, with options for two more vessels. The first two vessels are scheduled to be delivered in the second half of 2015, and the two options in the first half of […]

  • Navig8 Product Tankers Signs Contract for Four Additional Vessels

    12 November 2013
    Business & Finance

    Navig8 Product Tankers Inc announced that it has signed shipbuilding contracts for the construction of four additional ECO LR2 tankers to be built at Sungdong Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co., Ltd. The four new ECO LR2 tankers have been ordered by use of existing newbuilding options with Sungdong and have identical specifications as the Company’s […]

  • Terntank orders new wind/methanol-ready hybrid tankers

    30 November 2022
    Business Developments & Projects, Green Marine, Outlook & Strategy, Transition, Vessels

    Swedish shipping company Terntank is continuing its journey towards fossil-free operation with an order for two plus two new wind assistance and methanol-ready tankers. On 29 November, the company said it placed an order for the 15,000 dwt tankers at China Merchants Jinling Shipyard, Yangzhou. The vessels are designed by Norwegian technology firm Kongsberg and […]

  • China: STX Dalian Bags MR Product Tanker Order

    21 December 2012

    The Great Eastern Shipping Company Limited (G E Shipping) has placed an order for 1 new building Medium Range Product Tanker to be built at STX (Dalian) Shipbuilding Co. Ltd., China. The contract also gives GE Shipping the option to add more ships at a later date. The contracted ship, of about 50,000 dwt, will […]

  • RINA greenlights Shanghai Shipyard’s ammonia-fulled tanker design

    2 November 2022
    Business Developments & Projects, Certification & Classification, Research & Development, Vessels

    Classification society RINA has granted approval-in-principle (AiP) for 50,000-ton ammonia-fueled oil/chemical tanker developed and designed by Shanghai Shipyard, a subsidiary of China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC).

  • Taiwan: LNG Tanker Due at Yung-An Terminal May 5

    3 May 2012
    Vessels

    Taiwan’s Yung-An LNG terminal is due to receive another cargo of liquefied natural gas this week, according to Kaohsiung Port Authority. The 130,000 cbm Puteri Firus Satu tanker, operated by MISC of Malaysia, will reach Yung-An LNG import terminal on May 5. The Yung-An terminal is Taiwan’s first liquefied natural gas receiving terminal, and it […]

  • Union Maritime Orders Up to Four Tankers from CSHI

    12 July 2019
    Business & Finance

    The first ship from the batch is scheduled for delivery by the end of 2020.

  • Tanker Market to Ride Out Another Year of OPEC Cuts

    1 December 2017

    Aimed at rebalancing the oil market, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), joined by non-member countries led by Russia, agreed to extend the oil production cuts until the end of 2018. OPEC said that due to the uncertainties associated mainly with supply and, to some extent, demand growth it is intended that in June 2018, the opportunity of further adjustment actions […]

  • SHI delivers Teekay’s first LNG-powered shuttle tanker

    22 January 2020
    Vessels

    South Korean shipbuilder Samsung Heavy Industries has delivered Aurora Spirit the world’s first LNG dual-fuel shuttle tanker to Teekay Offshore.