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  • KR backs methanol-fueled MR tanker jointly developed with Korean partners

    7 June 2023
    Business Developments & Projects, Certification & Classification, Collaboration, Outlook & Strategy, Regulation & Policy, Vessels

    Korean Register (KR) has granted an Approval in Principle (AiP) for a methanol-fueled MR tanker, jointly developed by KR, South Korean shipbuilder K Shipbuilding and equipment manufacturer S&SYS. The MR tanker is designed as a dual-fuel vessel, harnessing the power of marine gas oil (MGO) and methanol, and it incorporates two methanol fuel tanks positioned […]

  • Value Maritime’s tech picked for Ardmore’s carbon capture-ready tankers

    12 December 2022
    Business Developments & Projects, Carbon Capture Usage & Storage, Equipment, Vessels

    Bermuda-headquartered Ardmore Shipping has selected Value Maritime’s emission-reducing technology to install on six MR tankers.

  • Watch: James Fisher takes delivery of 1st of two LNG dual-fuel tankers

    24 November 2022
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Green Marine, Transition, Vessels

    British provider of marine engineering services James Fisher has welcomed MV Sir John Fisher, the first of two 6,000 dwt LNG dual-fuel tankers, to its fleet at a delivery ceremony held on November 21. Built and launched at China Merchants Jinling (CMJL) shipyard in Yangzhou, China, the dual-fuel tanker underwent sea trials prior to delivery. […]

  • One quarter of tanker fleet to be over 20 years old by 2023

    27 April 2021
    Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Vessels

    More than 25% of the active tanker fleet, i.e., one quarter, is set to reach 20 years of age by 2023, creating quite a scrapping candidate list going forward. Data from VesselsValue shows that of the 13, 211 tankers in its data base, including small tankers, over 3,000 are 20 years old and older. Coupled […]

  • Final scrubber-fitted VLCC newbuild joins Hunter Tankers’ fleet

    21 August 2020
    Vessels

    Oslo-listed shipowner Hunter Tankers AS, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hunter Group ASA, has taken delivery of Hunter Frigg, the seventh scrubber-fitted ECO design VLCC newbuilding. The vessel was delivered by Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) in South Korea, and marks the end of the company’s newbuilding program. The company revealed that Hunter Frigg was recently fixed […]

  • Gibraltar Court Extends Detention of Iranian Oil Tanker Grace 1

    19 July 2019

    Gibraltar’s Supreme Court extends the period of detention of Grace 1.

  • Philly Shipyard Starts Building APT’s 1st LNG-Ready Tanker

    28 January 2016
    Business & Finance

    Philly Shipyard, Inc. (PSINC) has laid the keel for the first product tanker in a four vessel order for American Petroleum Tankers (APT), a Kinder Morgan subsidiary. When completed at the end of this year, the vessel will be 600 feet long and capable of carrying 50,000 tons of crude oil or refined petroleum products. “Today […]

  • Finland: Wartsila Wins Contract to Supply Main Engines for 25 Tankers

    18 July 2011

    Wärtsilä, the marine industry’s leading systems integrator, has been awarded the contract to supply the main engines for a series of 25 tankers being built for Volga Shipping Co., Russia’s oldest shipping company. Fifteen of the ships are to be constructed at the Okskaya yard in Navashino for ship owner Volga Flot Tanker, and the […]

  • China: COSCO Dalian Shipyard Secures Tanker to FPSO Conversion Contract

    27 December 2011
    Business & Finance

      The Board of Directors of COSCO Corporation announcea that its subsidiary, COSCO (Dalian) Shipyard Co., Ltd. has secured one contract to convert one Large Crude Carrier Tanker, MT “Sunrise Jewel”, to a Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessel for a Japanese ship-owner. The FPSO for the Japanese ship-owner is designed to operate for […]

  • Furetank’s LNG-fueled Fure Vinga named at home port Donsö

    29 June 2018
    Vessels

    Sweden-based Furetank a part of the Gothia Tanker Alliance, held a name giving ceremony for its LNG-fueled intermediate product and chemical tanker, Fure Vinga.

  • Navig8 Product Tankers Inks Sale-Leaseback Deal for Two Newbuilds

    17 March 2016
    Business & Finance

    Navig8 Product Tankers, a joint venture between the Navig8 Group and DVB Bank, has entered into sale and leaseback agreements with CMB Financial Leasing for two 74,000 dwt LR1 product tankers being built at Korean shipbuilder SPP Shipbuilding. The two vessels from SPP have contractual delivery dates of end May and end June 2016. Under the sale […]

  • CIP taps Færder Tankers and BW Epic Kosan to develop ammonia carrier fleet

    27 November 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Green Marine, Infrastructure, Outlook & Strategy, Vessels

    Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP), through its Energy Transition Fund (ETF), has signed multiple memorandums of understanding (MoUs) with shipping companies to advance the development of ammonia-fueled carriers.

  • Drewry: Tanker Rates Capped Out, Set to Weaken from 2016

    4 December 2015
    Business & Finance

    Tanker shipping rates are set to decline from current highs in 2016 with the forecast decline in crude oil trade due to ample stocking, and expected fleet expansion, according to the latest edition of Drewry’s Tanker Forecaster. Tanker market enjoyed high freight rates due to the buoyant crude oil trade and a rise in floating storage. […]

  • AD Ports teams up with KMTF to create offshore and tanker JV

    28 December 2022
    Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration

    UAE-based port operator AD Ports Group has joined forces with KMTF (Kazmortransflot), a fully-owned offshore logistics and services subsidiary of the Kazakh National Oil Company (KazMunayGas), to create a new offshore and tanker joint venture.

  • SFL to purchase three eco-friendly product tankers for $230 million

    20 March 2024
    Vessels

    Bermuda-based ship owner and charterer SFL Corporation has decided to acquire three new LR2 product tankers for a purchase price of approximately $230 million.

  • The Netherlands: VEKA Is Ready for LNG

    20 March 2013
    Vessels

    After having designed an LNG inland shipping tanker with a capacity of 2.250 cubic meters, VEKA Group is ready for the future. “The GATE-terminal on the Rotterdam Maasvlakte is the first and up to now the only LNG import terminal in the Netherlands”, project manager Wout van Wijnen says. “We expect that in the years […]

  • Qatar Gulf row roils LNG market, Shell tanker diverted

    9 June 2017

    By Oleg Vukmanovic LONDON (Reuters) – The escalating diplomatic conflict between Qatar and several of its Middle East neighbours has roiled the liquefied natural gas trade, causing at least one tanker to change course and UK gas prices to spike. Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and others this week severed diplomatic and transport […]

  • DSME Wins Yamal LNG Bid for ARC7 Ice-Class Tankers

    4 July 2013

    OAO Yamal LNG (Yamal LNG) announced today the completion of the tender for the construction of ARC7 ice-class tankers for the shipment of liquefied natural gas (LNG). After considering proposals submitted by seven world-leading shipyards, Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering was named the winner of the tender and Yamal LNG signed a slot reservation agreement […]

  • GNMTC: Captain, Crew Forced Off Libyan Oil Tanker in Bulgaria

    24 December 2018
    Business & Finance

    The captain and crew members of the crude oil tanker MT Badr were forced to disembark their ship in Bulgaria.

  • Samsung Heavy Cuts Steel for First SCF Arctic Shuttle Tanker

    8 April 2015
    Business & Finance

    South Korea’s Samsung Heavy Industries has cut steel for the first of six 42,000 dwt Arctic shuttle oil tankers for Russian maritime shipping company Sovcomflot. The 232-meter-long tankers are designed to complete a set of tasks of hydrocarbons transportation from Novoportovskoye field. It is planned to put the first ship into operation in June 2016. The […]

  • First of three sustainable shuttle tankers chartered by Petrobras arrives in Brazil

    17 June 2022
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Environment, Exploration & Production, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Transition, Vessels

    Petrobras has welcomed the first of three ordered Suezmax DP2 shuttle tankers, while the other two are expected to arrive by the end of 2022.

  • JV Golden Stena Bulk Expands Its Product Tanker Fleet

    21 May 2013
    Business & Finance

    In early February this year, Golden Stena Bulk, a 50-50 joint venture between Stena Bulk and Golden Agri-Resources (GAR), announced that it had taken over four innovative product tankers ordered by Stena Bulk in June 2012 for delivery in 2014 and 2015. Recently, the company exercised the options for a total of two product tankers […]

  • Russia: Oka Shipyard Floats Out Fourth Tanker of Project RST27

    27 August 2012

    Oka Shipyard launched, Aug 23,  the fourth 7030/5428 tons sea/river tanker of Project RST27 named VF Tanker – 14. Project RST27 was designed by Marine Engineering Bureau. New project tanker has increased river function comparing with other MEB projects. River deadweight of RST27 project vessels is increased for 716 t comparing to Armadas, while: hull strength […]

  • Wärtsilä’s green-fuels-ready engines to power Erik Thun’s tankers

    5 April 2023
    Equipment, Vessels

    Finnish technology company Wärtsilä has been contracted to supply the engines for four new 7999 dwt chemical tankers being built for Swedish fleet owner Erik Thun. 

  • RINA grants AiP for SDARI’s eco-friendly Aframax tanker design

    3 July 2024
    Certification & Classification, Vessels

    Italian classification society RINA has granted approval in principle (AiP) to Chinese ship design company SDARI for an eco-friendly Aframax tanker design.