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  • 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.

  • Newbuild Crude Tankers Rise in Popularity

    20 June 2014

    Low shipbuilding prices and the North American energy boom are leading ship operators and investors to finance billions of dollars into building crude tankers, according to IMDO’s Weekly Market review. New drilling and extraction technology enabling the shale oil and gas boom has triggered plans for LNG projects, led Canada to boost crude exports and […]

  • 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. […]

  • Pirates Hijack Tanker off Indonesia

    2 February 2015

    An Indonesian-flagged tanker carrying around 1,100 tonnes of fuel was hijacked and its crew forced to board a lifeboat off North Sulawesi, Indonesia, on Wednesday, January 28, according to the local media. According to initial reports, eight masked men armed with knives approached and boarded the MT Rehobot on a wooden boat, forcing 14 of the ship’s […]

  • NYK and partners wrap up ship-to-ship liquefied ammonia transfer off Spain

    24 September 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Operations & Maintenance

    Japanese shipping company NYK, in collaboration with ammonia trader Trammo, has completed its first ship-to-ship (STS) transfer of liquefied ammonia.

  • PGNiG starts tender process to charter LNG tankers

    4 November 2019
    Vessels

    Poland’s state-run gas firm PGNiG has reportedly started the tender process to charter liquefied natural gas (LNG) tankers for its new imports of the super-chilled fuel.

  • 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 […]

  • Oil tankers will pay more for liability

    25 February 2006

    Tankers and other liquid-carrying ships calling at New Jersey ports will soon have to carry increased insurance against the chance they spill cargo

  • Aramco orders six oil tankers

    20 February 2006

    State-owned Saudi Aramco has awarded South Korean Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering a contract to construct six large oil tankers.

  • 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 […]

  • Mammoet Salvage deals with burning tanker

    19 August 2009

    Mammoet Salvage, based in Schiedam, the Netherlands, has started the salvage operation of the Formosaproduct Brick. This product tanker, with a length of 228.5 meters, is on fire in the Straits of Malacca, 20 miles from Port Dickson, Malaysia. The tanker, carrying 58,000 tons of highly flammable naphtha, collided with the Ostende Max bulk carrier […]

  • South Korea: Vroon Takes Delivery of New Tanker

    16 November 2011
    Business & Finance

    Vroon Shipping announced that today, Wednesday 16 November 2011, company took delivery of Iver Blessing, a 6,187-ton asphalt/oil/chemical tanker. The vessel was constructed at the Hyundai Mipo Dockyard, Ulsan, South Korea and is the last in a series of four vessels to have been built at the Dockyard. A further two 6,255-ton asphalt/oil/chemical tankers, constructed […]

  • China: Tanker to FPSO Deal for COSCO

    27 December 2011
    Business & Finance

    COSCO (Dalian) Shipyard Co., Ltd. has secured one contract to convert one Large Crude Carrier Tanker, MT “Sunrise Jewel”, to a Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessel for a Japanese ship-owner. The FPSO for the Japanese ship-owner is designed to operate for 20 years without dry-docking. It will have a capacity of the crude […]

  • Scorpio Tankers Continues Newbuilding Spree

    3 July 2013
    Business & Finance

    Scorpio Tankers Inc. announced yesterday that it has reached agreements with two yards in Korea to construct a minimum of 5 and up to 10 newbuilding vessels designed for the carriage of liquefied petroleum gas (“LPG”). Also, the Company announced that it has taken delivery of its ninth Newbuilding MR product tanker, STI Le Rocher, […]

  • Navios Puts Tanker Duo to Work

    19 December 2014
    Business & Finance

    Greek owner and operator of tanker ships Navios Maritime Acquisition Corporation has chartered out the 2014-built, 49,998 dwt MR2 product/chemical tanker Nave Pyxis and the newbuilding 51,200 dwt MR2 product/chemical tanker Nave Sextans to an unnamed client counterparty for three years at a rate of USD 16,294 net per day. The vessels are expected to generate approximately USD 7 million of […]

  • Navig8 Grabs Eco Tanker Couple

    29 September 2014
    Business & Finance

    Navig8 Chemical Tankers Inc. has signed resale purchase agreements with an unnamed agribusiness group to purchase two  ECO 49,000 dwt chemical tankers currently under construction at Hyundai Vinashin Shipyard Co. Ltd. The tankers were originally ordered by the agribusiness group, speculated to be Wilmar, and are scheduled for delivery in Q1 2015. Navig8 has the option […]

  • Crew of Hijacked Indonesian Tanker Found

    27 October 2014

    Eleven crew members of the hijacked Indonesia-flagged product tanker Srikandi 515 have been found in lifeboats by Malaysian fishermen, according to Skala Times. The tanker loaded with 3,100 tonnes of palm oil was hijacked while transiting the Sampit shipping channel on October 9, the news site writes. Srikandi 515, owned by Lima Srikandi Jaya, departed Sampit, Kalimantan Tengah, on October […]

  • Maran Tankers adds 4 more LNG-powered tankers as Greek owners drive newbuilding trend

    23 August 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Green Marine, Outlook & Strategy, Transition, Vessels

    Greek shipping major Maran Tankers has commissioned the construction of four LNG-fueled tankers, each boasting an impressive capacity of 155,500 tons at China’s New Times Shipbuilding. The order comes in the form of exercised options for additional vessels held from a contract Maran Tankers signed back in April with the yard, Intermodal Shipbrokers said. The […]

  • Scorpio Tankers Fixes Three for Three

    27 October 2015
    Business & Finance

    Monaco-based tanker owner Scorpio Tankers has entered into time charter-out agreements with undisclosed clients for two ice class, medium-range oil/chemical tankers, and one long-range crude oil tanker. Scorpio chartered out the 2015-built, 52,000 dwt STI Westminster for a period of three years at USD 20,500 per day. The 2015-built, 52,000 dwt STI Nothing Hill was chartered out for the identical […]

  • Team Tankers Ups Loan Facility

    20 October 2015
    Business & Finance

    Bermuda-headquartered chemical tanker owner and operator Team Tankers International has increased its existing USD 100 million loan facility by additional USD 50 million. ABN AMRO has joined the facility as the lender of the additional funds, with the remaining USD 100 million provided by  SEB and NIBC Bank. “We are delighted to establish a relationship with […]

  • EU Orders Report on Tanker Security

    20 June 2012

    Brussels is to study the consequences of a terrorist attack on a tanker carrying liquefied natural gas, oil or chemicals. The European Commission’s mobility and transport directorate has called for tender documents on the study — the latest in a series of maritime security reports — to be submitted by August 15. The purpose of […]

  • US: Iranian Tankers Are a Floating Liability

    9 November 2018

    Hook: Iranian tankers are now a floating liability.

  • Sumatec to buy two oil tankers

    22 May 2006

    Sumatec Resources Bhd has ordered two units of 8,000 deadweight tonnes (dwt) double-hull product oil tanker from a Chinese shipyard for US$11.6 million (about RM42.11million) each. In a statement to Bursa Malaysia on May 22, Sumatec said it had entered into a letter of intent (LOI) with Yangzhou Kejin Shipyard Co Ltd and Jiangsu Guotai […]

  • Robbers Board Tanker off Venezuela

    26 March 2019

    Three robbers armed with knives boarded a crude oil tanker off Venezuela. 

  • Interactive Image: Chemical Tanker Parts

    8 June 2015

    How well do you know parts of a chemical tanker? With today’s interactive image we would like to test your knowledge and give out some details that might prove interesting to know. World Maritime News Staff