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  • China Considering Salvage of Sunken Iranian Tanker

    22 January 2018

    The Chinese authorities are reviewing a possibility of salvaging the wreck of sunken Iranian tanker.

  • Chemical Tanker Collides with Frigate in Taiwanese Port

    11 March 2019
    Business & Finance

    Saudi Arabia-flagged chemical tanker NCC Sama collided with a Taiwanese frigate in the port of Keelung.

  • Naqilat to invest $3.5bn on gas tankers, shipyard

    26 May 2005

    Qatar Gas Transportation Co (Naqilat) plans to invest $3.5bn on gas tankers, bulk carriers and a ship-repair yard, its managing director said. About $2.5bn is for liquefied petroleum gas carriers and $1bn divided equally on a yard and bulk ships, the director, Robert Curt, said in London.

  • Chief Engineer Medevaced from Euronav Tanker

    3 March 2017
    Business & Finance

    The chief engineer aboard the very large crude carrier (VLCC) Ingrid was medevaced from the ship as he suffered a leg fracture after getting hit with the anchor chain. The incident occurred in the morning hours on March 2 while the tanker was in the lightering zone off San Luis Pass, Texas, according to the […]

  • Robbers Board Maersk Tanker in East Malaysia

    18 July 2018
    Business & Finance

    Perpetrators boarded the product tanker Maersk Cancun while it was anchored at Sandakan Port.

  • Teekay Firms Shuttle Tanker Order at SHI

    25 August 2017
    Business & Finance

    South Korean shipbuilder Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) has sealed the order for two Suezmax-size DP2 shuttle tankers with Teekay Offshore Partners (TOO). The shipbuilder said today in an exchange filing that it has signed a sales and supply contract with Teekay for the tanker pair. The contract, worth KRW 309.2 billion (USD 274 million), contains options for […]

  • BIMCO: January Tanker Deliveries at a Record High

    2 February 2017
    Business & Finance

    Crude oil tanker deliveries reached a record high in January as 5.5 million dwt of the capacity entered the fleet so far this year, representing an increase of 220% from January 2016, BIMCO said citing preliminary data from VesselsValue. The month already accounts for 22% of the previous year’s total crude oil tanker deliveries. In comparison to […]

  • Hydrex Repairs Tanker Stern Tube Seal

    26 December 2017
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    Hydrex diver/technician team recently carried out an underwater stern tube seal repair on a tanker berthed in Antwerp. The ship was suffering from an oil leak, making an on-site repair necessary. Using a Hydrex flexible mobdock the team was able to carry out the entire operation on-site and underwater. The operation started with underwater inspection […]

  • IMB Reports Rise in Small Tanker Hijackings

    29 October 2014

    While pirate attacks on the world’s seas have fallen for the third consecutive year, small tanker hijacks by armed gangs are escalating in Southeast Asia, reveals the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) International Maritime Bureau (IMB) in its latest piracy report. IMB’s 2014 third quarter global piracy report notes a total of 178 incidents so […]

  • Singapore-Owned Tanker Raided in Malacca Strait

    23 April 2014
    Business & Finance

    Armed pirates raided a Singapore-owned tanker in the Malacca Strait stealing several million liters of diesel fuel it was carrying, as informed by Malaysian marine police on Wednesday. According to the reports, ten armed pirates stopped the vessel, en route from Singapore to Myanmar, on early Tuesday off Klang port. After the pirates boarded the […]

  • Drewry Maritime: Better Prognosis for Product Tankers

    16 February 2012

    Drewry Maritime Research’s latest Tanker Forecaster report looks at how surplus tonnage is placing a burden on crude tanker freight rates in the short and medium term, however, product tankers especially MR tankers, are expected to perform better in the coming years. Freight rates for MR product carriers improved in the last quarter of 2011 […]

  • Hijackers Board Oil Tanker off Indonesia

    15 October 2015
    Business & Finance

    The Liberia-flagged oil/products LR tanker MT Almi Spirit was boarded by six pirates in the Strait of Singapore today, Admiral Datuk Ahmad Puzi Ab Kahar, the Director General of Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA), reported via Twitter. The six men boarded the 2007-built tanker at around 7 a.m. local time in Indonesian waters, while the vessel was en route […]

  • India Steamship to Sell Four LR2 Tankers

    26 January 2017
    Business & Finance

    Kolkata-based shipping company India Steamship has reached and agreement to sell all four of its LR2 tankers to Greek Enterprises Shipping and Trading, according to data provided by VesselsValue. Under the deal, the company will sell the 2008-built Ratna Namrata, Ratna Shradha, Ratna Shruti and the 2010-built Ratna Shalini. Each featuring 105,800 dwt, the tankers […]

  • BIMCO: Oil Product Tanker Earnings in Decline

    30 June 2016

    Oil product tanker earnings are the lowest since Q3 of 2014 and could drop even further but there is still money to be made in the second half of this year, according to BIMCO.  The reason for this decline is oil product tanker fleet growth coupled with slowing down of oil product stock building seen at […]

  • Leighton: First Tanker Successfully Berthed (Iraq)

    12 March 2012

    Leighton Offshore has announced that following the successful hydrostatic testing of the onshore and offshore pipeline systems and subsequent final commissioning of the offshore export facility, crude oil was now flowing to a single point mooring (SPM) installed under the $799m Iraq Crude Oil Export Expansion Project (ICOEEP) Phase 1 in Iraq. The first tanker […]

  • Kuwait takes delivery of crude oil tanker Kazma 3

    5 April 2006

    KUWAIT: Kuwait has officially taken delivery of the giant oil tanker Kazma 3 yesterday. Kazma 3 is part of the modern fleet of the Kuwait Oil Tanker Company which has embarked on a fleet renewal programme.

  • NASSCO Christens APT’s Fourth ECO Tanker

    19 September 2016
    Business & Finance

    American Petroleum Tankers’ (APT) fourth ECO Class tanker, which is currently under construction at Californian shipbuilder General Dynamics NASSCO’s shipyard in San Diego, was christened on September 17. Named the Bay State, the tanker is the fourth vessel in a batch of five 50,000 deadweight ton, LNG-conversion-ready product carriers ordered from NASSCO. The 610-foot-long tankers, which are equipped with […]

  • Product Tanker Supply About to Outpace Demand

    2 September 2015

    Impending fleet growth is expected to reduce the product tanker market’s earnings over the medium term impacting the healthy returns the market enjoyed in recent years, according to Drewry’s Product Tanker Market Annual Report 2015. The widespread switching of trade by product/chemical tankers (swing tankers) from chemicals to refined products has resulted in rapid growth in the […]

  • Cruise Ship Collides with Tanker off Gallipoli

    29 June 2015
    Business & Finance

    A Celestyal Cruises ship suffered structural damage to its bow and was forced to dock at Turkey’s port of Gallipoli after it collided with the Marshal Islands-flagged product tanker STI Pimlico in the early hours of Saturday. The 37,000 dwt tanker was reportedly carrying highly flammable naphtha at the time of the collision. Local coastal safety authorities reported that […]

  • Oil Tanker Buildup at Basra Oil Terminal

    3 April 2015

    Dozens of oil tankers are waiting to load at Iraq’s offshore deep sea oil terminal Al Basra Oil Terminal in the Persian Gulf. A buildup of over 30 oil tankers has been reported amid delays of up to three weeks to load oil caused by bad weather and possible oil quality issues, Reuters cited shipping sources as saying. Some […]

  • First Teekay ECC Shuttle Tanker Starts Taking Shape

    24 February 2017
    Business & Finance

    South Korea’s Samsung Heavy Industries has laid keel for Teekay’s first shuttle tanker newbuilding intended for the East Coast Canada (ECC) project. The milestone marks the end of the block building period as well as the beginning of the next phase – completion of the newbuilding with all its systems. The shuttle tanker, the Beothuk Spirit, is expected […]

  • Trafigura Names 1st of 35 New Tankers

    20 September 2018
    Business & Finance

    Trafigura today named the first of its 35 crude oil and product tankers being built in South Korea and China.

  • Vietnam shipyard builds oil tanker for PetroVietnam

    31 October 2006

    An affiliate of Vietnam shipbuilding giant Vinashin Monday started work on the first of three 105,000 oil tankers under a contract last July with the state-run oil giant PetroVietnam. The US$56 million freighter to be 245m-long, 43m-wide and 20m-height will be built by Dung Quat Shipbuilding Industry Company and have state-of-the-art equipment satisfying latest international […]

  • Nanjing Tanker to Relist on Shanghai Exchange in January

    28 December 2018
    Business & Finance

    Nanjing Tanker Corporation, part of Sinotrans & CSC, to relist on Shanghai Stock Exchange.

  • Triyards Loses Another Chemical Tanker Order

    1 March 2018
    Business & Finance

    Triyards has received a termination notice for a design and construction deal related to a chemical tanker.