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  • Photos: Oil Spills in Johor Waters after Ship Collision

    21 August 2017

    Authorities are working on containing an oil spill resulting from a collision between the Sinica Graeca bulk carrier and Chemroad Mega oil/chemical tanker in Johor waters that took place on Thursday, August 17. There have been no casualties reported from the incident, however; the Marshall Islands-flagged bulker suffered considerable hull damage. The two ships crashed off […]

  • Samudera Shipping Disposes of Six Ships in 2016

    8 February 2017
    Business & Finance

    With the latest sale of a 2006-built containership Sinar Jimbaran, the shipping services provider PT Samudera Shipping Services, part of Samudera Indonesia, has disposed of a total of six vessels in 2016. Besides the 6,300 dwt boxship, which was sold to Samudera Bharat, the company reached agreements to sell the 1991 and 1992-built chemical tankers Sinar […]

  • ITF: Stolt Kikyo Crew Receive Australian Coastal Premiums

    8 October 2015
    Business & Finance

    Norwegian shipping company Stolt-Nielsen has settled the coastal trading payments owed to the Chinese crew of the Stolt Kikyo tanker for the time the vessel spent in Australian waters, the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) reports. Back in July, the ITF investigators boarded the Liberian-flagged Stolt Kikyo, jointly owned by Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK) and Stolt-Nielsen, while the tanker was berthed at […]

  • South Korea: HHI to Deliver 13.000 TEU Vessel Hanjin Sooho on April 1st

    5 March 2012

    Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI), the world’s biggest shipbuilder, is going to deliver the first of five large post-panamax vessels to Hanjin Shipping on April 1st. The delivery of 13,000 TEU vessel, Hanjin Sooho , ordered in June 2011, will be followed by the second and the third vessels, Hanjin Asia and Hanjin Europe, on April […]

  • South Korea: Naming Ceremony for MT Iver Best and MT Iver Blessing at Hyundai Mipo Dockyard

    5 October 2011

    Double namegiving ceremony for the MT Iver Best and the MT Iver Blessing took place today, Wednesday 5 October 2011, at the Hyundai Mipo Dockyard, Ulsan, South Korea. The Iver Best was named by Mrs Daniëlle Zuiderwijk, wife of Mr Johan Zuiderwijk, Mazars Paardekooper Hoffman N.V. The Iver Blessing was christened by Mrs Mette Olin […]

  • TEN Announces Charter Contract for VLCC Millennium

    25 September 2013
    Business & Finance

    Tsakos Energy Navigation Limited (TEN) yesterday announced a time charter agreement for the 301,171 dwt, double hull VLCC tanker Millennium, with a state oil company for a period of 18 months. The new charter commenced in September 2013 and is expected to generate gross revenues of approximately $11.50 million during the corresponding period. Currently, TEN’s […]

  • Remora Signs FEED Study with BG Brasil for New Generation of HiLoad Units

    26 June 2013
    Business & Finance

    Remora AS announced on Jun 13 that the company has been awarded a contract by BG Brasil (BG) to perform a FEED (Front End Engineering & Design) study for the next generation of HiLoad Dynamic Positioning (DP) units (HiLoad). The design that is based on the main parameters of the first generation, the HiLoad #1, […]

  • Pertamina Begins $2.5b Fleet Renewal Program

    3 October 2013

    Pertamina Shipping, a subsidiary of the Indonesia’s giant Pertamina, has placed orders for eleven new tankers in an aim to become a global shipper as well as a world-class energy company by 2024. The company contracted PT PAL to build two vessels, two orders were placed with PT Anggrek Hitam and one with PT Multi […]

  • Hydrex In Rudder Repair Action

    20 June 2018
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Underwater repair and maintenance specialist, Hydrex, has recently carried out rudder inspection and follow up repair on a tanker that was performing cargo operations in Antwerp. The vessel needed a fast on-site solution that would allow it to sail on after commercial operations were complete without losing time and with a fully functioning rudder. Hydrex […]

  • US Jones Act Stays Intact

    30 January 2015
    Business & Finance

    The American Maritime Partnership (AMP) has welcomed the decision of the United States Senate to approve the Keystone XL Pipeline legislation without an amendment to repeal the Jones Act proposed by the U.S. Senator John McCain, which AMP believes would have decimated the nation’s shipbuilding capacity. Earlier this month Senator McCain filed an amendment to […]

  • Medvedev: LNG carrier fleet gives Gazprom market advantage

    27 August 2014
    Vessels

    Alexander Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee took part in the naming ceremony for an LNG carrier in the city of Jinhae (South Korea). The vessel with a cargo capacity of 170.200 cubic meters was named Pskov. Equipped with a specialist diesel-electric drive, Pskov is among the most efficient and eco-friendly LNG tankers […]

  • Top News of The Week September 16-21, 2013

    22 September 2013

    Canada: Thousands of Birds Found Dead at Canaport LNG Canaport LNG, owned by Repsol YPF, said that a significant number of small birds were killed on Friday at the LNG import terminal after flying through the terminal’s flare. Qatargas, Petronas Sign UK LNG Supply Deal Qatargas and Petronas LNG (UK) signed a five-year Sales and […]

  • Top news of the week July 25-30, 2016

    31 July 2016

    Picture of the day: first LNG tanker passing through expanded Panama Canal The 161,870-cbm Maran Gas Apollonia, chartered by the Hague-based LNG giant Shell, is the first LNG tanker to transit the newly expanded Panama Canal connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. France: incident at Dunkirk LNG terminal Send out tests at France’s fourth LNG […]

  • Stolt-Nielsen names new CFO

    27 March 2018

    Norwegian-listed shipping company Stolt-Nielsen has named a new chief financial officer as current CFO retires and is appointed to the company’s board of directors.

  • High-tech pirates are no romantic figures

    29 April 2008

    A French yacht. A Japanese tanker. A Spanish fishing boat. After several years of decline, pirates are striking with increasing frequency on the high seas.Attacks in the first three months of this year were up 20 percent compared with the same period in 2007, analysts say. Last year saw more pirate attacks than the year […]

  • Ever Given refloated after a week of blocking ships in the Suez

    29 March 2021
    Vessels

    The giant containership Ever Given, which ran aground in the Suez Canal last week, blocking passage on both sides of the waterway and creating a massive logjam, has finally been refloated. To remind, the 20,000 TEU ship, flying the flag of Panama, has been taken on time-charter by Taiwanese shipping major Evergreen from Japan-based Shoei […]

  • Port of Antwerp Bunkers First LNG-Fueled Seagoing Ship

    15 September 2015
    Business & Finance

    The 2,700 cbm coastal tanker Sefarina on Monday became the first seagoing ship to be bunkered with liquefied natural gas (LNG) in the port of Antwerp, Belgium. LNG bunkering has been possible in Antwerp for some time, but so far it has been used only for barges, with the LNG being supplied by trucks. The recent […]

  • ABS, Vaholmen to work on VOC recovery vessel capable of capturing emissions

    7 June 2023
    Business Developments & Projects, Vessels

    Classification society ABS and Norwegian company Vaholmen VOC Recovery have signed a letter of intent (LoI)  for the development of a volatile organic compounds (VOC) recovery vessel to capture emissions released during the loading of crude oil cargoes. 

  • Pirate ‘washes ashore with cash’

    13 January 2009

    The body of a Somali pirate who reportedly drowned soon after receiving a huge ransom has washed ashore with $153,000 in cash, his uncle says. The man was one of a group of pirates who seized the Saudi supertanker Sirius Star in November. They reportedly received $3m (£1.95m) for freeing the tanker but five were […]

  • Puffin delivers first crude cargo

    30 October 2007

    AED Oil’s wholly owned Puffin oil project delivered its first crude cargo of 328,000 barrels of oil. The crude cargo was lifted from floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel Front Puffin to trading tanker Mayon Spirit. The API gravity for the crude cargo was calculated at 43.6, which corresponds with the previously published API.

  • Wartsila Completes Bit Viking Conversion (Finland)

    23 November 2011

    The unique fuel conversion of the product tanker ‘Bit Viking’, from heavy fuel oil to gas operation, has been finalised and in October the vessel was handed over to Tarbit Shipping. The re-commissioned vessel is operated by Statoil along the Norwegian coastline, and the conversion carried out by Wärtsilä enables it to qualify for lower […]

  • ITF: FOC Vessels Carrying LNG Threat to Environment

    8 January 2015

    The International Transport Workers’ Federation has raised concerns about Flag-of-Convenience (FOC) vessels transporting highly dangerous cargoes around Australia’s coast and Great Barrier Reef. On Monday, the first consignment of liquefied natural gas was transported out of Gladstone aboard a BG Group-chartered, FOC tanker called the Methane Rita Andrea. “FOC ships are notorious for breaching safety […]

  • AET names first of two dual-fuel VLCCs built for TotalEnergies

    24 February 2022
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Certification & Classification, Collaboration, Environment, Infrastructure, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Transition, Vessels

    AET has revealed and named the first of the two dual-fuel VLCCs built for a long-term charter with TotalEnergies.

  • Navios Partners, Acquisition merger to form US largest publicly-listed shipping company

    27 August 2021
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy

    Dry cargo vessel owner and operator Navios Maritime Partners and tanker owner Navios Maritime Acquisition Corp. have unveiled their plan to merge into a standalone entity.

  • NGO: Norwegian Pension Funds to Focus on Indian Shipbreaking Yards

    21 March 2019
    Business & Finance

    Norwegian Council on Ethics for GPFG plans to turn its attention towards Indian shipbreaking practices.