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  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • Hydrex Installs PBCF on Two Tankers

    16 January 2014
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Last month Hydrex installed Propeller Boss Cap Fins (PBCF) on two tankers during their respective stops in Ghent and Antwerp. As a result of the underwater operation, the ships will not have to wait for their next drydock visit to start benefitting from the fuel savings the PBCF’s will bring them. The Propeller Boss Cap […]

  • 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 […]

  • Terntank takes delivery of LNG-powered chemical tanker

    29 June 2016
    Vessels

    Tanker owner Terntank said it has on Monday taken the delivery of the LNG-powered 15,000 DWT chemical tanker Ternsund from China’s Avic Dingheng Shipbuilding Co. The Danish-flagged Ternsund is the first vessel in a series of four 15,000 DWT chemical tankers the Chinese shipyard is building for Terntank. All of the vessels will be equipped with dual-fuel […]

  • 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 […]

  • Report: Another Tanker Attacked by Houthis

    25 July 2018

     A Saudi oil tanker has reportedly been attacked by the Houthi movement while underway in the Red Sea.

  • Work on largest oil tanker commences

    2 November 2006

    The Dung Quat Shipbuilding Industry Corporation began its construction of a 104,000 DWT oil tanker on Monday at the Dung Quat Economic Zone in Quanng Ngai Province. The vessel

  • 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 […]

  • Hydrex Repairs Tanker’s Propeller in Dubai

    28 August 2015
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Hydrex mobilized an emergency team to Dubai to perform underwater inspection and repair on a 184-meter chemical tanker after it hit a buoy.  After the equipment arrived at the vessel’s location the team started the operation with an underwater survey of the ship. The inspection revealed that only a single blade of the propeller had been damaged. Because 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. […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • Cameron LNG-dedicated tanker delivered

    4 November 2020
    Infrastructure, Vessels

    Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK Line) on November 3, took delivery of Diamond Gas Metropolis, a Cameron LNG dedicated tanker.

  • Mediterranean oil tanker rates rise

    27 November 2005

    LONDON, Sun: The cost of shipping crude oil on million-barrel tankers from ports in the Mediterranean Sea rose to its highest in almost a year as restrictions in the Turkish straits kept vessels from picking up cargoes.

  • ExxonMobil Hires Singapore’s 1st LNG-Fueled Bunker Tanker

    16 August 2019
    Business & Finance

    The vessel will join Sinanju’s 13-vessel bunker fleet in December 2019.

  • Tanker Hijacked off Ivory Coast

    3 September 2014

    A group of twelve armed pirates boarded a drifting product tanker around 45 nautical miles southeast of Abidjan Port, Ivory Coast on August 27,  piracy watchdog ICC Commercial Crime Services (CCS) reports. According to the report, the pirates took hostage of all crew members, stole cash that was onboard the ship, including that of the crew […]

  • NAT Cancels the Purchase of a Suezmax Tanker

    10 June 2013

    In Nordic American Tankers’ Ltd. (NAT) press release of March 20, the Company announced that it had entered into an agreement to acquire a suezmax tanker. The tanker was to be delivered no later than mid-May 2013. On request of the Seller of the vessel, NAT agreed to extend the delivery date until June 15, […]

  • Aker Philadelphia Shipyard Christens New Tanker, USA

    31 January 2013

    Crowley Maritime Corporation christened its newest tanker, Florida, yesterday, January 30, at the Aker Philadelphia Shipyard and will soon put the 330,000-barrel ship to use in the U.S. Gulf for a major energy customer. This U.S.-flag vessel is the second of two American built, operated and crewed tankers Crowley purchased last year from Aker. More […]

  • Navig8 Product Tankers Sinks to Loss

    13 February 2017
    Business & Finance

    Norway-based petroleum products shipping company Navig8 Product Tankers reported a full-year net loss of USD 5.2 million, a decrease of USD 31.8 million from a net income of USD 26.7 million seen in 2015.  Total operating revenue for the twelve-month period of 2016 amounted to USD 108.2 million, against 38.2 million recorded in the previous year. […]

  • NASSCO Signs ECO Tanker Deal

    12 November 2013

    General Dynamics NASSCO has entered into a contract with Seabulk Tankers, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of SEACOR Holdings Inc., for the design and construction of one 50,000 deadweight ton LNG-conversion-ready product carrier with a 330,000 barrel cargo capacity, plus an option for one additional vessel. This new 610-foot-long tanker is a continuation of the […]

  • Nikiski tanker’s 2 hulls praised

    7 February 2006

    The use of double-hulled tankers in Cook Inlet — once controversial, now routine — prevented an oil spill last week when a half-filled tanker broke away from a pier in Nikiski and washed up on a beach, officials said Monday.