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  • VV: Bulker Values Continue to Slide in 2019

    8 May 2019

    VesselsValue, ViaMar released forecasted asset values until 2022 for four major ship types.

  • Greece: TEN Places Order for One Plus One LNG Carrier

    10 April 2012

    Tsakos Energy Navigation Limited (TEN) has placed an order of one plus one state-of-the-art LNG carrier for delivery Q1 2015 at a major South Korean shipyard. The vessel is of the new trifuel design enabling the ship to run on fuel oil, marine diesel/gas oil and natural gas offering attractive alternatives to charterers. Concurrently with […]

  • Oversupply Keeps January Vessel Orders at Record Low

    27 February 2017

    Global ordering activity has fallen to 26-year low in January 2017, shipbuilding data from Maritime & Trade by IHS Markit show. Specifically, demand for bulk carriers and gas carriers has plummeted as there were no booked orders in January. The appetite of shipowners for tankers over 10,000 dwt has also subsided as there were only […]

  • DHT Holdings Orders Two VLCCs

    31 January 2017
    Business & Finance

    Crude oil tanker company DHT Holdings placed an order for two very large crude carriers (VLCCs) with Korean shipbuilder Hyundai Heavy Industries earlier in January. Featuring 319,000 dwt, the new VLCCs are expected to join the company’s fleet in July and September 2018. DHT said that the newbuilding contracts will be financed with cash at hand and […]

  • Korean Shipbuilders Wrap Up Q1 with Only 9 Orders

    5 April 2016
    Business & Finance

    The highly anticipated recovery of the shipbuilding industry seems to be far off for the world’s leading shipbuilding nation as only nine orders have been placed at South Korean shipbuilders during the first quarter of the year. The companies that did manage to brave the storm and secure some work so far this year are […]

  • UAE: AET, Drydocks World Ink Two MCV Conversion Projects

    5 December 2011

    Drydocks World has signed a Contract with Singapore based AET for two Tanker-to-Modular Capture Vessel (MCV) conversion projects. AET is converting these vessels as part of the Marine Well Containment Company’s (MWCC) well containment system. MWCC is a not-for-profit, stand-alone organization with 10 member companies ExxonMobil, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, Shell, BP, Apache Anadarko, BHP Billiton, Statoil […]

  • UAE: Drydocks World, AET Sign Contract for Two MCV Conversion Projects

    4 December 2011
    Business & Finance

    Drydocks World has signed a Contract with Singapore based AET for two Tanker-to-Modular Capture Vessel (MCV) conversion projects. AET is converting these vessels as part of the Marine Well Containment Company’s (MWCC) well containment system. MWCC is a not-for-profit, stand-alone organization with 10 member companies ExxonMobil, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, Shell, BP, Apache Anadarko, BHP Billiton, Statoil […]

  • Equinor resumes operations at Sture terminal after two-ship collision

    8 November 2018

    Norway’s Equinor resumed operations at the Sture terminal and the Kollsnes plant on Thursday afternoon after being shut down in connection with the collision between two ships.  To remind, the frigate KNM Helge Ingstad and the tanker Sola TS collided at the Sture terminal early on Thursday morning, prompting Equinor to shutdown the terminal and evacuate […]

  • Damen Yichang Shipyard to build LNG carriers

    17 March 2015

    The Damen Yichang Shipyard in China is poised to enter a new era, the company informed.

  • ClassNK Releases New Guidelines on Welding of Duplex Stainless Steels

    14 January 2014
    Business & Finance

    Leading classification society ClassNK released new Guidelines on the Welding of Duplex Stainless Steels. The guidelines have been developed to help shipyards safely and effectively make use of new duplex steels that are increasingly being used in the construction of cargo tanks for chemical carriers. Duplex stainless steel has a two-phase microstructure containing grains of […]

  • Denmark: SVITZER Gets New CEO

    29 February 2012
    Business & Finance

    Mr Robert Uggla has been appointed new CEO of SVITZER with effect from 1 May 2012. Robert Uggla has until now held the position as Managing Director of Broström, which is part of Maersk Tankers. He replaces Jesper T. Lok, who was recently appointed new CEO of DSB, the national Danish train operator. “Robert Uggla […]

  • Japan: Yokohama Rubber Develops System to Monitor Offshore STS Operation

    27 February 2012
    Business & Finance

    The Yokohama Rubber Co. announced that it has developed a system to monitor offshore Ship-To-Ship (STS) operation. The system incorporates technology from the design of pneumatic fenders and the numerical simulation analysis of dynamic ship motion. This is a comprehensive monitoring system for offshore STS operation, such as when two tankers come alongside to transfer […]

  • Nakilat Considers LNG Fuel for Qatari Fleet

    17 October 2011

      Ship owner Qatar Gas Transport Co  (Nakilat) said a decision on whether to convert 45 of its largest tankers to burn natural gas instead… (TradeArabia) [mappress] Source: TradeArabia, October 17, 2011

  • China Shipping Dev’t reports 80% decline in 2009 net profit

    30 March 2010

    China Shipping Development Co Ltd, the dry bulk and tanker arm of China Shipping (Group) Co, announced Sunday that its net profit for 2009 plunged 80% to RMB 1.06 billion from RMB 5.37 billion in 2008.

  • Qatar set to spend $15b on gas ships

    31 March 2005

    Qatar will spend $15 billion in the next five years to add 70 vessels to its fleet of tankers to export more liquefied natural gas (LNG), Oil Minister Abdullah al-Attiyah said on Wednesday. Qatar, home to the world

  • Update 2: Bintan Dodges Oil Spill

    6 January 2015
    Business & Finance

    The oil that spilled from Libyan-registered oil tanker Al Yarmouk is not headed towards the island of Bintan based on the satellite imagery obtained on January 4, the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) informed. The ship managers of Al Yarmouk, V. Ships UK Ltd estimate that 4,500 tonnes of Madura crude oil spilled from the tanker after it […]

  • Mombasa (Kenya) port’s capacity to rise with a deeper channel

    4 November 2009
    Project & Tenders

    Petroleum Institute of East Africa (PIEA) said the government’s Sh16 billion Mombasa port expansion plan entailing ocean floor dredging will allow large tankers to dock… Source: Daily Nation, November 4, 2009;

  • Bangladesh: Emerging Potential of Shipbuilding Industry

    8 July 2011

    It’s a good piece of news that the country’s shipbuilding industry has recently received orders for 40 oil tankers worth Tk 6.0 billion … Shahiduzzaman Khan (TheFinancialExpress) [mappress] Source: TheFinancialExpress, July 7, 2011.

  • Canadian LNG Can Find its Place at Asia Pacific Market

    24 July 2011

    Until a few years ago, the big players in the global natural gas exporting business were busy planning tanker terminals to supply what they… By Dave Cooper, edmontonjournal.com [mappress] Source:Edmonton Journal , July 24, 2011;

  • Seven Somalis convicted for piracy

    7 September 2010

    Seven Somalis have been sentenced to five years in prison, respectively, for acts of piracy, the EU Navfor reports. The pirate gang attacked the German Navy tanker FGS Spessart on 29 March, but failed as the assault was repelled.

  • Hydrex Carried Out Wide Range of Underwater Propeller Operations Around the World

    31 October 2012

    Recently Hydrex teams carried out a wide range of underwater propeller operations on tankers around the world. Among them a spinner cone (Propeller Boss Cap Fin –PBCF) replacement on a 110-meter vessel in Singapore, a propeller blade straightening on a 248-meter ship in Algeciras, Spain, and a blade cropping on a 183-meter vessel in Flushing, […]

  • Ocean Yield’s foray into LNG to add $840 million to its backlog

    5 July 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Vessels

    Ocean Yield has revealed its intention to buy an interest in France’s Geogas LNG from infrastructure fund CVC DIF, which marks its first acquisition in the liquefied natural gas (LNG) segment.

  • EnQuest makes first crude oil transfer at Sullom Voe in three years

    14 September 2018

    EnQuest has made a ship-to-ship transfer of crude oil at the Port of Sullom Voe, Shetland, for the first time in almost three years. 

  • GulfNav Settles with NAT over Nordic Harrier Case

    10 August 2015
    Business & Finance

    Dubai-listed tanker operator Gulf Navigation Holding has signed a settlement agreement with one of its major creditors, Nordic American Tankers Limited, Bermuda (NAT), over a 2014 arbitration award. The arbitration case related to the 6-year bareboat charter with GulfNav of the Suezmax vessel Gulf Scandic (now named Nordic Harrier) covering the period 2004 to 2010. When the vessel […]

  • Nine DSME Vessels Selected as the Best Ships of 2013

    3 February 2014
    Business & Finance

    Nine vessels built by DSME were selected as the best ships of 2013. As a result of this year’s achievement, DSME has now had more than nine ships selected for the sixth consecutive year. The world’s four biggest magazines exclusively dedicated to shipbuilding and shipping, the UK magazines ‘Naval Architect’ and ‘Fairplay Solution’, and the […]