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  • AET Tankers Christens LR2 Duo

    8 June 2017
    Business & Finance

    Petroleum and chemical tanker owner AET Tankers has held a double naming ceremony of two long-range (LR2) petroleum tankers built by South Korean Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI). Christened at HHI’s yard in Gunsan, Korea, Eagle Lyon and Eagle Le Havre will both qualify for the Green Passport notation, having been designed to optimise overall operational efficiency and minimise […]

  • Maersk Tankers Opts for Transas ECDIS

    9 October 2014
    Business & Finance

    Maersk Tankers has selected Transas to implement ECDIS compliance program across its 75 strong fleet to meet the IMO requirement for  ECDIS on board all tankers over 3,000 gross metric tonnes from July 1, 2015. The agreement includes ECDIS installations for both retrofit and for newbuilt vessels for Maersk Tankers. According to the agreement signed between Group Procurement in Maersk […]

  • Oil tanker hijacked in the Somali waters

    30 March 2006

    Somali pirates have hijacked giant oil tanker near El Ade port in North Mogadishu. The tanker is reported to have recently unloaded diesel in the port.

  • Clipper Bids Farewell to Tanker Market

    5 June 2015
    Business & Finance

    The Clipper Group Ltd has exited the tanker market with the sale of the last three chemical tanker vessels of Clipper Group A/S, Danish subsidiary of Clipper Group.  Clipper Group A/S specializes in ferry services in Denmark (Danske Færger), ro-ro activities on the Irish Sea (Seatruck Ferries), commercial and technical management (Clipper Fleet Management), and ownership and operation of […]

  • Top Ships Sells Tanker Pair

    13 January 2015
    Business & Finance

    Nasdaq-listed tanker owner and operator Top Ships Inc. has sold and leased back two of its MR2 tankers, the M/T StenaWeco Energy and the M/T StenaWeco Evolution. The 2014-built, 49,737 dwt StenaWeco Energy and the 50,000 dwt newbuilding StenaWeco Evolution are expected to change hands in the first quarter of 2015. Following the sales, Top Ships will […]

  • Product Tanker Orderbook at Historic Low

    27 October 2017

    Despite somewhat increased activity in terms of new orders in the product tanker sector in the first nine months of 2017, the orderbook remains at historically low levels, as disclosed by Capital Product Partners L.P. in a market commentary. The MR product tanker orderbook currently stands at 7.2% of the fleet, the lowest level on record. In addition, […]

  • Dockwise tanker conversion well on track

    10 April 2008

    Dockwise Ltd. reports that within its shipping division the conversion of 4 Suezmax tankers into modern semi-submersible cargo vessels is well on track to meet the estimated delivery dates later in 2008. Such is the conclusion of the site visit report of Rob Strijland, the recently appointed COO of Dockwise Shipping, part of the Dockwise […]

  • Hafnia Tankers Acquires LR1 Quartet

    11 February 2015
    Business & Finance

    Danish shipping company Hafnia Tankers has entered into an agreement to acquire four LR1 product tankers as it pushes to further expand its business within the product tanker segment. The quarter is scheduled to be delivered during the month of February. Once delivered, the vessels will all be joining the Straits Tankers LR1 Pool. The vessels in question […]

  • Navios Acquisition Takes Delivery of MR2 Product Tanker

    8 May 2014
    Business & Finance

    Navios Maritime Acquisition Corporation, an owner and operator of tanker vessels, announced that the Nave Jupiter, a newbuilding MR2 product tanker of 49,999 dwt, was delivered yesterday from a South Korean shipyard. The company said that Nave Jupiter has been chartered-out for two years to a high quality counterparty at a base rate of $14,319 […]

  • Update: Bombed Tanker Headed to Greece

    7 January 2015

    A Greek-owned tanker that was bombed by a Libyan military fighter plane January 4 while moored in the Port of Derna, is currently on its way to Greece, carrying the bodies of two crew members who died in the attack, IHS Maritime 360 reports. A 29-year-old Greek and a Romanian crew member were killed, and two more were […]

  • Navig8 Chemical Tankers Delivers Loss

    20 November 2017
    Business & Finance

    Navig8 Chemical Tankers, a joint venture between the Navig8 Group and Oaktree Capital Management, has delivered a net loss in the quarter ended September 30, mainly due to lower rates. The company’s net loss for the period was at USD 4.9 million, compared to the net income of USD 3.7 million, for the same three months of […]

  • US Blacklists Six Venezuelan Tankers

    4 December 2019

    The United States has blacklisted six tankers that were shipping crude oil from Venezuela to Cuba. 

  • Thai Tanker Hijacked off Malaysia

    31 August 2014

    An armed pirate gang hijacked a Thai tanker off Malaysia’s east coast and siphoned its cargo of oil on Thursday, August 28, the Regional Cooperation Agreement on Combating Piracy and Armed Robbery (ReCAAP) said on Friday. According to ReCAAP, the group, comprised of six armed pirates, approached the unnamed tanker in a speedboat at approximately […]

  • Tanker oil leak disaster looms

    7 December 2007

    A large oil tanker was gushing thousands of tonnes of oil off South Korea’s west coast today after being hit a barge, South Korea’s maritime ministry said. The Hong Kong-registered Hebei Spirit was struck while at anchor off Daesan port in the Taean region and the ministry said it had already leaked some 10,800 tonnes […]

  • TB Marine Orders Eight Tankers

    2 December 2015
    Business & Finance

    German shipowner TB Marine-Hamburg has entered into a contract with Nantong-based Huatai Heavy Industry Co., Ltd. for  the construction of eight contracts chemical tankers. The contract signing ceremony was held in Shanghai, according to local media reports. In line with the contract, the restructured shipbuilder should start delivering the newbuilds in the second half of 2017. The […]

  • Monaco: Scorpio Tankers Takes Delivery of STI Ruby

    7 September 2012

    Scorpio Tankers Inc. announced that it has taken delivery of STI Ruby, the third MR vessel under its previously announced Newbuilding program. STI Ruby is the third of ten vessels scheduled for delivery under the Company’s Newbuilding program. Upon delivery, the vessel began a time charter for up to 120 days at $18,250 per day […]

  • Scorpio Tankers to Build Seven VLCCs

    4 December 2013
    Business & Finance

    Scorpio Tankers Inc. yesterday announced that it has entered into agreements for the construction of seven Very Large Crude Carriers (VLCCs) and entered into an agreement with an unaffiliated third party to issue shares in exchange for the transfer of ownership to the Company of four MR product tankers currently under construction in South Korea. […]

  • Sunken tanker continues to leak oil

    1 September 2006

    BUNKER fuel continues to leak from two tanks of the sunken M/T Solar 1, but only in “very small” quantities, a Coast Guard official said. The leaks on the tanks, each with a capacity of 200,000 liters, were discovered by the remote-operated submersible from the Japanese salvage ship Shin Sei Maru, which took video footage […]

  • Aker Philadelphia Lays Keel for Second Crowley Tanker

    24 December 2014
    Business & Finance

    Aker Philadelphia Shipyard held on December 23 a ceremonial keel laying for the second of four product tankers it is building for its joint venture with Crowley. Aker also started construction on the fourth product tanker in the same series. At the keel laying ceremony, coins were placed on one of the keel blocks before the […]

  • Gener8 Maritime Enters Tanker Scene

    8 May 2015
    Business & Finance

    Crude oil tanker operator General Maritime Corporation and Navig8 Crude Tankers Inc have completed their merger to create Gener8 Maritime, a U.S.-based provider of international seaborne oil transportation services.  Under the deal, Navig8 Crude merged with a newly-formed subsidiary of General Maritime and became a wholly-owned subsidiary of General Maritime. General Maritime was renamed Gener8 Maritime. […]

  • Another coronavirus outbreak on board a tanker

    9 July 2020
    Human Capital, Vessels

    Seven crew members have tested positive for Covid-19 on board a tanker that arrived in Algeciras, Spain from Nigeria. Based on the available information, nine crew members took rapid Covid-19 tests which turned out to be positive for seven sailors. The Maltese-flagged Samus Swan oil and chemical tanker, owned by Danish Uni-Tankers, has been quarantined […]

  • Panamanian Tanker Attacked in Gulf of Aden

    17 April 2017

    A Panamanian-flagged oil tanker Alheera was rescued by Chinese Navy from a pirate attack on Saturday, April 15 while underway in the Gulf of Aden. The ship was approached by a skiff with five pirates on board who were trying to board the tanker south off Balhaf, Yemen. As understood, the pirates fired at the […]

  • Secondhand Crude Tankers in High Demand

    26 February 2015

    Crude market sparked considerable interest in 2014 with 170 crude tankers of a combined 35.7m dwt reportedly sold, more than double the volume of crude tonnage sold in 2013, Clarksons reports. Rise in crude sales volumes has been attributed to increased interest in larger tonnage, with 47% of crude sales accounted for by VLCC transactions, which totalled […]

  • BP to Offload MR2 Tanker Trio

    26 February 2018
    Business & Finance

    BP has been linked to the sale of three Middle Range 2 (MR2) tanker veterans.

  • Intertanko Objects Nigerian Tanker Ban

    23 July 2015
    Business & Finance

    The International Association of Independent Tanker Owners (Intertanko) has issued a letter of protest to Nigerian National Petroleum Corp (NITC) against the oil corporation’s decision to ban 113 tankers from Nigerian waters. According to the decision, 113 tankers were banned “from engaging in crude oil/gas loading activities in any of the terminals within the Nigerian territorial waters until […]