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  • Imabari Clinches LNG Tanker Order

    28 April 2014
    Project & Tenders

    Imabari Shipbuilding said it has won newbuilding contracts for two LNG carriers from Spanish shipping company Elcano. The order was secured in cooperation with Mitsubishi Corporation. These two LNG carriers will be built at the Saijo Shipyard and delivered in 2017 to Elcano. “Based on the Panama Canal expansion and diversified LNG market, these LNG Carriers dramatically […]

  • Petrobras Unit to Spend $1.2B on Tankers

    1 February 2007

    The transportation unit of Brazil’s state oil company Petrobras said Wednesday that it will pay US$1.2 billion (euro925 million) to build 10 oil tankers. Brazil’s National Development Bank will finance the shipbuilding project with 2.47 billion reals (US$1.16 million; euro895 million), the press office of Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said in a […]

  • No Market for Unmanned Ships in Tanker Sector

    8 January 2018
    Business & Finance

    Ardmore Shipping does not see a market for unmanned shipping in the tanker sector.

  • USCG Detains Tanker in Port Angeles

    11 February 2015

    The U.S. Coast Guard has detained the Marshall Island-flagged tanker Overseas Jademar in Port Angeles, after Port State Control officers discovered several significant safety violations,  including non-functioning distress signaling equipment and fire safety systems. The electronic position indicating radio beacon, an essential piece of distress equipment that notifies authorities of the crew’s location in the event of an […]

  • Tanker crew rescued after collision

    31 January 2006

    All 22 members of the crew of a chemical tanker that collided with a cargo ship in the English Channel early today have been rescued by helicopter and lifeboat, officials said.

  • Q Ship offloads another tanker

    6 October 2006

    THE Qatar Shipping Company (Q Ship) yesterday said it has sold another of its new Aframax tanker to Porlock Maritime Company for $69.5mn (QR253mn). With the sale of its newly built

  • Navy tanker to have £5m upgrade

    30 August 2007

    A Royal Fleet Auxiliary ship is undergoing £5m refit in Cornwall. A&P ship repairers won the contract to refit the Black Rover, one of two tankers supporting the Royal Navy, at Falmouth Docks.

  • Swedish Consilium to Equip Gotland Tankers

    8 October 2012
    Business & Finance

      At Guangzhou two 39000dwt chemical tankers are under construction and in their final phase towards delivery. First vessel scheduled from mid of October and second from January 2013. Consilium managed to not only win the order for Fire and Gas detection but over the top also IBS. This is the first Swedish client who […]

  • 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 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 […]

  • 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.

  • Fifth Product Tanker Launched at Aker Philadelphia Shipyard

    15 July 2008

    Tanker Will Be the First in the U.S. with Advanced EPA Tier II Compliant Engines PHILADELPHIA–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Aker Philadelphia Shipyard (Oslo:AKPS – News), a leading U.S. commercial shipyard, launched Hull 009, the fifth in a series of 12 product tankers to be completed by the yard in 2011 and sold to American Shipping Company (Oslo:AMSC – […]

  • Castor Maritime enters the tanker market

    12 February 2021
    Business & Finance, Vessels

    Cyprus-based bulker owner Castor Maritime Inc. has entered into agreements to purchase two 2005 Korean-built Aframax LR2 tankers from an unaffiliated third-party seller for $27.2 million. Both vessels have attached time charter contracts with an unidentified charterer with an estimated remaining term of about one year. Each vessel will provide the company with a minimum gross […]

  • Marenave Finds Buyers for Three Tankers

    29 May 2017
    Business & Finance

    German shipping trust Marenave Schiffahrts AG has sold three of its tankers to undisclosed buyers for a total of USD 24.2 million, data provided by VesselsValue shows. Disposed of through a bank sale, the ships in question are LR1 tankers Mare Atlantic and Mare Pacific, which fetched a price of USD 6.8 million a piece. The third vessel from […]

  • 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.

  • GE Shipping buys Suezmax tanker

    6 July 2007

    Great Eastern Shipping has signed a contract to buy a modern double hull Suezmax tanker, which is expected to join the company’s fleet by the second quarter of 2007-08.

  • 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.

  • Mingde Heavy Pens Seven Tankers

    10 October 2013

    Nantong Mingde Heavy, a fast-growing private-owned enterprise, has signed a new contract under which the yard will build seven eco-friendly 24,000 dwt stainless steel chemical tankers for a European shipowner. This is the first big deal for high-value added ships signed by any Nantong-based shipyard, with the exception of NACKS, since the financial crisis, SinoShip reports citing […]

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Product Tanker Grounds off Kenya

    27 June 2017

    The 1988-built product tanker Theresa Arctic, which ran aground off the coast of Kilifi in Kenya on June 20, could soon be refloated, according to local media. The Netherlands-based SMIT Salvage, as well as the local salvage company Alpha Logistics were reportedly hired to undertake the refloating operation. The vessel, which was loaded with 27,500 mt of vegetable oil […]

  • More oil escapes from tanker

    23 August 2006

    Local residents and marine scientiest from the University of the Philippines Visayas install an improvised oil-spill boom made of bamboo, sacks and hay on the breakwater in Nueva Valencia in Guimaras.The sunken tanker, which caused the country

  • Norden buys product tanker duo

    20 April 2010

    Danish Dampskibsselskabet Norden purchases two 25,382 GT handysize product tankers, the FD Nord Fast, built in 2008 and the FD Nord Farer, built in 2005. The purchase price of the two vessels is USD 52 million.

  • U.S. Forces in Control of Libyan Tanker

    17 March 2014
    Business & Finance

    A team of U.S. Navy SEALs has taken over control of the seized tanker Morning Glory, the Pentagon officials said this morning. The operation, approved by the U.S. President Obama, was carried out last night around 2am GMT upon the request of the Libyan and Cypriot governments. “No one was hurt tonight when U.S. forces, at the […]

  • 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 […]