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  • Chinese shipyard starts building next Avenir LNG bunkering vessel

    29 July 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Infrastructure, Vessels

    China’s Nantong CIMC Sinopacific Offshore & Engineering (SOE) has started constructing the next 20,000 cubic meter (cbm) LNG bunkering vessel for UK-based midstream LNG & BioLNG company Avenir LNG.

  • Design of UK Navy’s Next-Generation Tankers Reaches Its Final Stages

    9 July 2013

    Work will begin on the UK Navy’s next-generation tankers in a year’s time after design teams in the UK completed their plans for the four vessels. RFA Tidespring, Tiderace, Tidesurge and Tideforce will provide the Fleet – including the giant future carriers – with fuel, water, spare parts and other supplies for a quarter of […]

  • Scorpio Sells, Leases Back MR Quintet

    29 September 2017
    Business & Finance

    Monaco-based tanker owner Scorpio Tankers has entered into a deal to sell and leaseback five 2012-built MR product tankers to Bank of Communications Financial Leasing Co. The ships in question are STI Amber, STI Topaz, STI Ruby, STI Garnet, and STI Onyx, the company said. Until now, three of the five transactions have been completed, […]

  • China: COSCO Nantong Shipyard Names Two 59.000 DWT Shuttle Tankers

    16 September 2011
    Business & Finance

      Two 59,000DWT Shuttle Tankers, built for the Danish owner LAURITZEN TANKERS A/S, were named “DAN CISNE” and “DAN SABIA” in COSCO Nantong Shipyard. The Panamax size vessels are double hulled DP ¢òshuttle tankers, registered with NK Class, and comply with the safety requirements of both the Danish Maritime Authority and the Brazilian national oil […]

  • Brazil: Third Product Tanker Under the Promef Program Joins Transpetro Fleet

    15 July 2012

      Transpetro recently received the product tanker Sérgio Buarque de Holanda, the third vessel from the Fleet Modernization and Expansion Program (Promef). At 183 meters long and with capacity to transport 56 million liters of fuel, this is the 200th ship to be built by the Mauá Shipyard Niterói (RJ), the birthplace of the Brazilian […]

  • South Korea: Hyundai Mipo Delivers Fuel-Efficient MR Tanker to CMM

    23 November 2012
    Business & Finance

    Korea’s Hyundai Mipo Dockyard (HMD) has delivered King Gregory, a 52,000-dwt tanker, to Consolidated Marine Management (CMM), the shipping branch of the Latsis Group. King Gregory, HMD’s hull No. 2345 delivered earlier this month, is the first of two medium-range (MR), IMO II & III-class oil/chemical tankers contracted by Consolidated in August last year. The […]

  • Bergen Viking Goes Green

    30 June 2015
    Business & Finance

    The Rolls-Royce powered oil/chemical tanker Bergen Viking has returned to service following a conversion from diesel-electric to liquefied natural gas (LNG)-electric propulsion. The retrofit replaced four of the ship’s original six diesel generating sets with two Rolls-Royce Bergen C6 generating sets. The LNG fuel containment system and control system is delivered by two off 155m³ […]

  • Divers Launch Mission to Find Oil on SS Montebello Sunken Tanker (USA)

    17 October 2011
    Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

      Two weeks after the attack on Pearl Harbor, a Japanese submarine launched a torpedo at an American oil tanker just off the California coast… By NOAKI SCHWARTZ (dailydemocrat) [mappress] Source: dailydemocrat, October 17 , 2011

  • Sovcomflot’s crude oil tanker completes 1st commercial voyage on LNG fuel

    24 October 2018
    Vessels

    Sovcomflot’s crude oil tanker Gagarin Prospect, operating on LNG fuel, completed its voyage across the Baltic and North Seas from Primorsk to Rotterdam on October 22.  The vessel delivered a cargo of 104,815 tonnes of crude oil to Rotterdam. For the LNG-powered tanker, it marked its first export delivery of Russian crude oil under a long-term […]

  • South Korea: Hyundai Mipo Hands Over Product Tanker STI Topaz

    21 August 2012

    Scorpio Tankers Inc. has taken delivery of the 52,000 DWT product tanker STI Topaz, the vessel was built by Hyundai Mipo Dockyard (HMD), South Korea. STI Topaz is the second of ten vessels scheduled for delivery under the Company’s Newbuilding program. The brand new propulsion technology was incorporated in the project including the ‘B’ type ultra-long stroke […]

  • Crew member falls from Sagami tanker off Sabine Pass, Texas

    4 December 2020
    Authorities & Government, Human Capital, Operations & Maintenance, Safety, Vessels

    A search is underway for a 27-year-old male crew member who fell overboard from the Handy tanker vessel Sagami in the Gulf of Mexico.  The US Coast Guard said that the search was underway approximately 29 miles offshore Sabine Pass, Texas, since Wednesday evening. The individual was last seen wearing an orange life jacket and coveralls with reflective […]

  • King Edward Powerless in Bosporus

    24 February 2015
    Business & Finance

    The Marshall Islands-flagged King Edward lost power in the Bosporus strait and was carried dangerously close to the coast by strong currents before the crew managed to anchor the 182-meter tanker, The Daily Sabah reports. The 2004-built tanker was on its way from Italy to Russia’s Black Sea Kavkaz port when it suffered suspected engine failure […]

  • Belgium: LNG Tanker Al Jassasiya Scheduled at Zeebrugge Terminal December 8

    23 November 2011

    The Al Jassasiya LNG tanker, with a capacity of 145,800 cubic metres, is due to arrive in the Zeebrugge liquefied natural gas terminal December 8, according to the Port of Zeebrugge website. The Zeebrugge LNG terminal is situated on a 30ha site in the outer port of Zeebrugge, Belgium. It is operated by Fluxys LNG […]

  • SHI scores first LNG tanker order Since November 2019

    1 December 2020
    Business Developments & Projects, Infrastructure, Vessels

    South Korean shipbuilder Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) has won an order for a liquefied natural gas carrier.

  • Vietnam shipyard to build 104,000 DWT oil tankers for US buyer

    29 September 2006

    Vietnam

  • Drewry says 65 more LNG tanker orders needed by 2020

    28 July 2016

    Shipowners will need to order an additional 65 vessels by 2020 to meet LNG shipping demand as new supplies are coming on-stream, according to the shipping consultancy Drewry. Despite the current weakness in LNG shipping rates, Drewry “maintains its bullish long-term outlook” for LNG shipping and believes that the market will require more vessels than listed […]

  • Finland: Wartsila to Supply Dual-Fuel Propulsion Package for Two New Tankers

    31 December 2012

    Wartsila, the marine industry’s leading solutions and services provider, has been contracted to supply the complete dual-fuel propulsion package for two new Liquefied Ethylene Gas (LEG)/Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) tankers being built for Anthony Veder, the Netherlands. The contract was signed with AVIC-International Shanghai and Avic-Dingheng Shipbuilding Co. Ltd yard in September 2012. The ships […]

  • China: J.O. Invest Orders Two Chemical Tankers from Nantong Mingde

    27 November 2012
    Business & Finance

      On 26th of November 2012, the signing ceremony of the 2+6 33,000 DWT Stainless Steel Chemical Tankers between Nantong Mingde Heavy Industry Stock Co., Ltd. and J.O. Invest was held in Nantong JinShi International Hotel. Mingde is the independent designer of the vessels in question.  In consideration of economical efficiency and environmental friendliness, Mingde […]

  • China: CIC Changxing Shipyard Repairs Oil Tanker MV Morning Glory

    24 August 2011

    M.V. “Morning Glory” is an Aframax oil tanker managed by a well-known large tanker company in Greece. Founded in 1991, she mainly manages oil/chemical tankers, with total 5,000,000DWT. The company was described as “epitomizing the modernization of the Greek tanker industry” by Lloyd’s List in 2005. The main work scope for “Morning Glory” was the […]

  • South Korea: Hyundai Mipo Bags 20 Medium Range Tanker Deal

    6 December 2012

    Korean shipyard Hyundai Mipo Dockyard has been awarded with a contract for 20 Medium Range (MR) product carriers by Sinokor Merchant Marine, according to Fearnleys Weekly report. Reportedly, the contract was signed last week and it comes in the form of 10 formally ordered and 10 optional 52,000-dwt tankers. The order comes after a long-term […]

  • Gazprom Marketing & Trading, AMSMA Open New Tanker Operations Classroom (Russia)

    12 September 2011

    Gazprom Marketing & Trading (GM&T) and Admiral Makarov State Maritime Academy in St. Petersburg (AMSMA)  announce the opening of a new Tanker Operations Classroom on 16th September 2011. The opening of the classroom is an important milestone in creation and development of a training of first-class specialists in high-quality and safety operations of a modern […]

  • Furetank’s dual-fuel tanker trials waste-based renewable fuel for Equinor

    18 November 2022
    Vessels

    Swedish shipping company Furetank has revealed that its dual-fuel tanker Fure Valö has undertaken the first voyage on a new Equinor fuel blend containing used cooking oil.

  • BW Group Tied to Order of Up to Eight LR 2 Product Tankers

    7 July 2017
    Business & Finance

    BW Group has through its subsidiary BW Pacific placed an order for up to eight Long Range 2 (LR 2) product tankers. The order, comprising six firm and two optional ships has been placed at South Korean Daehan Shipbuilding, according to BW Pacific’s CEO Tina Revsbech that confirmed the order to ShippingWatch. World Maritime News is yet […]

  • Six Japanese companies to build country’s 1st methanol-powered coastal tanker

    23 March 2023
    Vessels

    Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd., MOL Coastal Shipping, Ltd., Tabuchi Kaiun Co., Ltd., Niihama Kaiun Co., Ltd., Murakami Hide Shipbuilding Co., Ltd., and Hanshin Diesel Works, Ltd. have joined forces to build a methanol-fueled coastal tanker.

  • Russia: Nobel Brothers Shipyard Launches Tanker of Project RST25 Alexander Shemagin

    15 November 2011

      An official launching ceremony for the lead tanker of project RST25 «Alexander Shemagin” was held today, Nov. 15th at Rybinsk-based Nobel…   (portnews) [mappress] Source: portnews, November 15, 2011; Image:mosrp