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  • Aker Philadelphia Secures Cash for Four Product Tankers

    7 March 2014

     Aker Philadelphia Shipyard, Inc. (APSI) has entered into a loan agreement with Caterpillar Financial Services Corporation (Cat Financial) for a USD 120 million loan facility for construction financing on the four product tankers under contract with Crowley Maritime Corporation (Crowley). The loan will be subject to a maximum borrowing amount of USD 58-60 million per […]

  • Tanker hijack takes place off UAE coast

    4 August 2021
    Safety

    The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) has issued a warning on 3 August 2021 that a ship may have been hijacked off the coast of the United Arab Emirates.

  • Tanker Granted Access to Zueitina Terminal

    18 August 2016
    Business & Finance

    The Greece-flagged crude oil tanker New Hellas has been granted approval to enter Libya’s Zueitina oil terminal after the oil port was reopened at the beginning of August, according to the National Oil Corporation (NOC). The 123,054 cbm tanker will now enter the terminal in order to transfer a crude oil shipment to the country’s Zawiya Refinery. New Hellas is expected to transport […]

  • Somali pirates free Japan tanker

    11 December 2007

    A gang of Somali pirates has left a Japanese chemical tanker they hijacked six weeks ago, freeing its crew and ending a stand-off with US navy ships. The pirates ended their occupation of the vessel just days after demanding a $1m (£500,000) ransom.

  • Tugs and tide free grounded tanker

    4 February 2006

    A high tide and the nudging and pulling of three tugboats combined to refloat a beached oil tanker at Nikiski early Friday, averting what could have been a risky operation to transfer its cargo of nearly 5 million gallons of petroleum onto other vessels.

  • Italian tanker hijacked in the Indian Ocean

    9 February 2011

    The Italian-owned tanker Savina Caylyn, 104.255 DWT, has been hijacked some 670 nautical miles East of the Socotra Island in the Indian Ocean, EU Navfor reports. The ship was boarded by a group of five pirates using small arms and rocket propelled grenades

  • Greece: CMM Takes Delivery of King Gregory Tanker

    23 November 2012

    Korea’s Hyundai Mipo Dockyard (HMD) has delivered King Gregory, a 52,000-dwt tanker, to Consolidated Marine Management (CMM), the shipping branch of the Latsis Group. King Gregory, HMD’s hull No. 2345 delivered earlier this month, is the first of two medium-range (MR), IMO II & III-class oil/chemical tankers contracted by Consolidated in August last year. The […]

  • Russian oil tanker splits in half

    10 November 2007

    Up to 2,000 metric tons of fuel oil have leaked near the Black Sea after a Russian oil tanker split in half. It came apart after it was smashed by 108km/h (67 mph) winds and 5m (16ft) waves in the Kerch Strait between the Azov and Black Seas.

  • Norwegian shipowner cancels tanker orders

    15 July 2009

    Utkilen, a Norway-based shipowner, has cancelled an order for three 9,500DWT chemical tankers at Italian shipbuilder Cantiere Navale de Poli. Utkilen’s 2009 annual report showed that the contracts were cancelled and that the refund guarantees for yard instalments were put in place.

  • Mid-ocean pirate attack on tanker

    10 November 2009

    Somali pirates have attacked an oil tanker some 1,000 nautical miles (1,850km) off the coast, the EU’s anti-piracy mission says. The Hong Kong-registered BW Lion managed to evade an attack by two fast skiffs, firing automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades, it says.

  • AET Tankers’ Vessels Conduct Maiden LNG Bunkering Ops

    19 April 2019
    Business & Finance

    AET Tankers’ two LNG dual-fuel Aframax conducted maiden ship-to-ship LNG bunkering in Port of Rotterdam.

  • LNG Tanker Grand Aniva Performs Bunkering Operation in Russia

    25 May 2012
    Business & Finance

    On 22 May 2012 LNG tanker Grand Aniva replenished fuel supplies in the Russian port of Nakhodka and became the first gas carrier to perform bunkering operation in Russia. Previously only oil tankers of Sovcomflot entered this port. Gas tankers working for the Sakhalin-2 project usually took the bunker in the ports of the Asia-Pacific […]

  • Seventh P-MAX tanker delivered

    25 September 2009

    Concordia Maritime has taken delivery of the product tanker Stena Progress from Brodosplit Shipyard, Croatia. The vessel is the seventh in the P-MAX series of ten units ordered and has been signed to a 5-year time charter with the French oil and energy company Total to transport refined petroleum products.

  • Sovcomflot Takes Delivery of LNG Tanker Velikiy Novgorod

    3 March 2014
    Vessels

    Sovcomflot, Russia’s largest shipping company, has taken delivery of its latest LNG carrier – the ‘Velikiy Novgorod’ – from South Korea’s STX Offshore & Shipbuilding. The ship is equipped with a diesel-electric, dual-fuel propulsion system consisting of 2 × MAN 8L51/60DF and 2 × MAN 9L51/60DF engines, offering a total rated power of 34 MW, […]

  • NYK takes stake in tanker firm Uyeno Transtech

    28 January 2022
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Outlook & Strategy, Transition

    Japanese shipping firm Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha (NYK) has agreed to acquire a 10% stake in Uyeno Transtech, a domestic tanker operating company that is part of the Uyeno Group.

  • Odfjell Adds New Tanker to Its Fleet

    25 October 2018
    Business & Finance

    Odfjell expanded its fleet with a new chemical tanker, Bow Precision, on October 17.

  • MOL Chemical Tankers: Latest delivery rounds off LNG dual-fuel stainless steel tanker fleet

    10 June 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Green Marine, Infrastructure, Vessels

    Chemical tanker operator MOL Chemical Tankers, a subsidiary of Japanese shipping major Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL), has added the fourth LNG dual-fuel stainless steel chemical tanker to its fleet.

  • LNG tanker Aseem heading to India

    17 March 2016

    Petronet LNG’s Dahej terminal in India is set to receive a cargo of chilled gas from Qatar during the weekend. The 155,000 cbm LNG tanker Assem departed from Qatar’s Ras Laffan port on Wednesday and is expected to dock at the Dahej terminal on March 19, according to shipping data. Petronet LNG receives the fuel from Qatar […]

  • Chemical tanker hijacked near Seychelles

    17 November 2009

    Somali pirates have seized a chemical tanker near the Seychelles, the latest in a spate of attacks spanning an ever-widening area between Tanzania and the Maldives, maritime sources told AFP on Tuesday. The vessel was attacked on Monday northwest of Aldabra, an island which forms part of the Seychelles archipelago but lies some 700 miles […]

  • Navios Takes Delivery of MR2 Product Tanker Bougainville

    1 October 2013

    Navios Maritime Acquisition Corporation (Navios Acquisition) announced that the Bougainville, a new building MR2 product tanker of 50,626 dwt, was delivered yesterday from STX Offshore & Shipbuilding, Jinhae Shipyard. The Bougainville is expected to generate approximately $3.2 million annual base EBITDA for the first year ($13.5 million of aggregate base EBITDA including the annual 2% increase […]

  • Oil tanker fights off pirates

    6 April 2005

    The crew of a Japanese oil tanker have used powerful fire hoses tofend off an attack by pirates in the Singapore Strait. The International Maritime Bureau said pirates in seven fishing boats accosted the east-boundtanker near Indonesia’s Karimun Islands on Tuesday afternoon — the third attack on a Japanesevessel in three weeks in the busy […]

  • Tanker Blackout Blocks Suez Canal Traffic

    15 February 2019

    The tanker was part of a northbound convoy of 21 vessels.

  • Scorpio Tankers Buys Minority Stake in Ecochlor

    25 July 2018
    Business & Finance

    Scorpio Tankers has agreed to purchase 55 BWTS from Ecochlor and become a minority shareholder in the company.

  • Wilhelmsen Ship Management takes 80% stake in Ahrenkiel Tankers

    12 January 2022
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Infrastructure, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Vessels

    Singapore-based ship manager Wilhelmsen Ship Management has signed an agreement to acquire a majority stake in Germany’s Ahrenkiel Tankers, strengthening its position in the tanker market.

  • Capital Fixes Improved Tanker Charters

    27 February 2015
    Business & Finance

    The Athens-based petroleum, dry cargo and containerised goods shipping company Capital Product Partners has secured new time charter employment for two of its tankers at improved daily rates, the company said in a release. The 2001-built, 159,982 dwt crude carrier Amore Mio II will continue its time charter employment with Capital Maritime & Trading Corp. (CMTC), for […]