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  • Kawasaki to build two LNG tankers

    9 September 2015
    Project & Tenders, Vessels

    Kawasaki Heavy industries has secured an order to build two LNG carriers for JVs which Chubu Electric has established with MOL and NYK Line. MOL and NYK also ordered a pair of LNG tankers today from Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, as reported by LNG World News. Once completed in 2018, the two 177,000 cbm vessels will transport LNG […]

  • Aker Philadelphia Shipyard Delivers Third Product Tanker

    19 November 2007

    Vessel is the third delivered this year and will operate in US Jones Act market. The third product tanker built by Aker Philadelphia Shipyard was delivered today, marking the first time in the yard’s history that three vessels were delivered in the same year. Following very successful sea trials and final testing and commissioning, the […]

  • VIDEO: Abandoned Tanker in Liberia Listing

    13 May 2016

    The mysterious crewless oil tanker Tamaya 1 that washed ashore early this month in Liberia is listing to the starboard, according to the country’s Ministry of National Defense. In addition, following an inspection by the Liberian Coast Guard, it has been determined that the 1,441 DWT oil tanker was gutted by fire, leaving the bridge-upper and control […]

  • South Korea to build tankers for Russia

    1 June 2005

    The keels of two Aframax super-tankers were laid at South Korea’s Hyundai Heavy Industries ship-yard in Ulsan on orders from Russia’s Primorye (Maritime) shipping company (PRISCO corporation), reports the corporate press center. Korean ship-builders are to lay the third tanker’s keel there on July 11, 2005. These ships will carry Sakhalin oil from the Khabarovsk […]

  • 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.

  • Utkilen takes delivery of third LNG-ready tanker

    5 June 2020
    Infrastructure, Vessels

    The Bergen-headquartered shipping company Utkilen has taken delivery of its thirds LNG-ready tanker from the Dingheng shipyard in China on June 3.

  • GEFO LNG-ready tanker launched

    6 July 2020
    Infrastructure, Vessels

    China Merchants Jinling Shipyard has launched the first LNG-ready chemical tanker for German shipowner GEFO. The Chinese yard previously known as AVIC Dingheng Shipbuilding launched the 7,000 dwt stainless steel tanker Norma on July 2. GEFO ordered two FKAB Marine-designed LNG-ready vessels in 2018. However, the German owner said last year it amended the order […]

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Tanker Ocean Mare Arrested in Singapore

    26 June 2017
    Business & Finance

    The 2006-built crude oil tanker Ocean Mare has been arrested in Singapore, most likely due to unresolved payments, according to Supreme Court of Singapore’s records. Owned by India-based Varun Shipping, the 106,004 dwt vessel was arrested in the afternoon hours of June 22, following instructions from a local law firm Haridass Ho & Partners. Focal Investigation & Security […]

  • NYK Denies Tanker Leak Claims

    19 May 2015
    Business & Finance

    Japanese shipping company NYK Line refuted recent reports saying that one of the tankers operated by the company had sprung an oil leak while in Tokyo Bay. “On May 16 (Saturday) and 17 (Sunday), a few media outlets reported that crude oil had leaked from Takamine, a tanker operated by NYK Line, while the ship was […]

  • BFC Adds Bunker Tanker for Azov-Black Sea Basin

    17 September 2014
    Business & Finance

    Baltic Fuel Company (BFC) has acquired a conventional tanker for performing of bunkering operations in the ports of the Azov – Black Sea Basin.  On September 15, 2014, the tanker arrived at port Kavkaz for customs clearance, flag changing ceremony and registration with the Russian Maritime Register of Shipping. The vessel will preserve the class […]

  • 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 […]

  • Tanker runs aground on Finnish coast

    3 April 2006

    The tanker Weserstern ran aground near the city of Porvoo in the Gulf of Finland Sunday. The crew of 15 is unharmed and no spills have been detected.

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • Iraq Blacklists Three Oil Tankers

    10 October 2014
    Business & Finance

    Three oil tankers, two Suezmaxes and one Panamax, have been banned from loading at Iraqi oil terminals as a reaction to direct exports of crude by the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) over the objections of Baghdad, Platts quoted shipping market sources as saying Friday, October 10. “The United Carrier, the United Dynamic and the Nautilus will […]

  • 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 – […]

  • Chevron charters its first hybrid electric bunker tanker

    1 April 2024
    Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Green Marine, Outlook & Strategy, Vessels

    Chevron is chartering its first hybrid electric bunker tanker, a vessel that fuels other ships, from V-Bunkers.

  • Ardmore Buys Six MR Tankers

    8 June 2016
    Business & Finance

     New York-listed Ardmore Shipping Corporation (Ardmore) has reached agreement to acquire six modern, Eco-Design MR product/chemical tankers for an aggregate purchase price of USD 172.5 million. The vessels, which have an average age of 2.4 years, are scheduled to be delivered to Ardmore on a charter-free basis between September and October 2016. The acquisition will expand Ardmore’s […]

  • 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 […]

  • Agreement Signed for Six More Tankers

    8 February 2007

    Aker American Shipping ASA and Overseas Shipholding Group, Inc. announced today that they have signed an agreement in principle pursuant to which Aker American Shipping subsidiary, Aker Philadelphia Shipyard, will construct up to six additional Veteran Class MT-46 Jones Act Product Tankers (three fixed plus three options) and transfer them to another subsidiary, American Shipping […]