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  • Vinashin builds cargo ship, oil tanker

    21 September 2006

    A company from the Nam Trieu shipbuilding industry, which is part of the Viet Nam Shipbuilding Industry Group (Vinashin), won a contract on Sept. 20 to build a 54,000-tonne cargo ship and a 13,500-tonne oil tanker. The 54,000-tonne ship will be 190m long and 32.26m wide and have a main engine of 9,480kW. It will […]

  • Sovcomflot Wraps Up Primorsk Tanker Purchase

    27 September 2016
    Business & Finance

    Russian shipping major Sovcomflot (SCF) completed the acquisition of nine arctic-going oil tankers from the transporter of bulk liquid cargoes Primorsk International Shipping (Prisco) on September 26. The company’s subsidiary SCF Tankers purchased the tankers through an auction procedure as the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York, which is handling PRISCO’s bankruptcy case, […]

  • Desgagnés takes delivery of its fifth LNG-fueled tanker

    1 May 2019
    Vessels

    Quebec City-headquartered shipper Desgagnés has taken delivery of Rossi A. Desgagnés the last in the series of LNG-fueled oil-chemical tankers. 

  • ClassNK Launches Bulker, Tanker Structural Rules

    2 March 2015
    Business & Finance

    Tokyo-based classification society ClassNK has released its Common Structural Rules for Bulk Carriers and Oil Tankers (Rules for the Survey and Construction of Steel Ships Part CSR-B&T). These new technical rules were developed in response to the adoption of the Common Structural Rules for Bulk Carriers and Tankers by the International Association of Classification Societies (IACS). […]

  • 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.

  • Taizhou Sanfu Bags Two Tanker Orders

    25 July 2014
    Business & Finance

    A Singaporean owner has placed an order for two 34,500 dwt chemical tankers with Chinese shipbuilder Taizhou Sanfu Shipbuilding, the builder announced.   The ships will feature a length of about 180m, breadth of 30 m and a design draft of 9.20 m. Further details on the order have not been revealed. The order intake […]

  • MT Maritime Orders Four Chemical Tankers

    8 April 2015
    Business & Finance

    The US-based chemical tanker operator MT Maritime has placed an order for four new vessels to be built by two Japanese shipyards, the company’s newbuilding list shows. Kitanhion Shipbuilding will build two 21,000 dwt tankers, scheduled for delivery in January and March 2018, respectively. MT Maritime has further two 36,650 dwt tankers on order at Shin Kurushima Dockyard, expected […]

  • 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 […]

  • AiP for Samsung’s ammonia-fuelled tanker design

    1 October 2020
    Research & Development

    Lloyd’s Register has granted Approval in Principle (AiP) to Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) for its ammonia-fuelled tanker design. This represents a key progress milestone in the joint development project LR and SHI announced with industry leading partners MISC Berhad and MAN Energy Solutions in January 2020. To meet the International Maritime Organization’s 2050 ambitions on […]

  • Armed Pirates Board Tanker off Indonesia

    31 October 2017

    Five pirates armed with knives boarded an oil tanker, identified as GP T2, on Monday, October 30 while it was underway in the Singapore Strait, at approximately 6.5 nm North East of Terumbu Betata, Batam Island, Indonesia. The perpetrators tied up the duty oiler in the engine room, took away some engine spare parts and escaped in […]

  • Vitol to Expand Tanker Fleet by Taking Over Bitumen JV

    19 March 2019
    Business & Finance

    The acquisition is expected to be completed in the second quarter of 2019.

  • Design Unveiled for World’s First Pure-Electric Tanker

    30 January 2019
    Business & Finance

    Asahi Tanker and Exeno-Yamamizu jointly developed the new tanker design with zero-emission electric propulsion.

  • Samsung Heavy Snags Teekay Tanker Trio

    4 June 2015
    Business & Finance

    South Korean shipbuilder Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) has won a contract to build three shuttle tankers plus an option for one more for a US owner, most probably Teekay Offshore, who recently announced the placing of an identical order at a Korean shipyard. Both SHI and Teekay say in their press releases that the tankers […]

  • ABB Secures Yamal LNG Tanker Contract

    27 March 2014
    Equipment, Project & Tenders, Vessels

    ABB said it has won an order to supply power and propulsion equipment for the first of 16 LNG tankers which will serve Russia’s Yamal LNG project. The contract has an additional option for the supply of equipment for another 15 vessels. The scope of supply by ABB will include generators, switchboards, transformers, drives and propulsion […]

  • Stranded tanker temporarily blocks Suez traffic

    20 December 2007

    Traffic in Egypt’s Suez Canal was temporarily disrupted on Thursday after an oil tanker ran aground in the waterway, a canal authority official told AFP. The 150,000-tonne tanker, flying the Maltese flag and travelling from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean, rammed the east bank of the canal after its navigation system broke down, the […]

  • Daewood Shipbuilding to build five LNG tankers

    2 August 2005

    Daewood Shipbuilding to build five LNG tankers Seoul, Aug. 1, 2005 (WAM) — Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co.,will build five large liquefied natural gas (LNG) tankers valued at US$1.20 billion for Qatar Liquefied Gas II which is a joint venture between Exxon Mobil Corp. and state-run Qatar Petroleum.

  • SFL – Sale and Conversion of Single Hull Tankers

    7 January 2007

    Ship Finance International Limited (NYSE:SFL) (“Ship Finance” or the “Company”), today announced that it has agreed to sell the single hull suezmax tanker Front Transporter to an unrelated third party at a gross sales price of $38 million. Frontline will receive a compensation payment of approximately $15.4 million for the termination of the charter, and […]

  • Concordia Maritime and Stena Bulk Pool Tankers

    1 December 2014
    Business & Finance

    Concordia Maritime and Stena Bulk have launched a pool of four P-MAX tankers for a period of one year. The pool will include Stena Perros and Stena President, for which the companies previously signed time-charters, as well as Stena Penguin and Stena Primorsk. The four tankers will transport heavy petroleum products, primarily in the Atlantic market. “We […]

  • Brazil: OSX to Build 11 Tankers for Kingfish

    12 March 2012
    Business & Finance

    OSX was hired by Kingfish do Brasil Navegação S/A to build 11 medium range tankers, with 45,000 DWT (Deadweight Tonnage) each, for transportation of oil and clear products. These vessels shall be chartered by Kingfish to Petrobras. The approximate total value of the shipbuilding contract between Kingfish and OSX is US$ 732 million with deliveries […]

  • TNG Lands Lucrative Gig for Tanker Newbuild

    29 April 2015
    Business & Finance

    Croatian tanker owner and operator Tankerska Next Generation (TNG) is planning to take delivery of the first out of two MR2 tankers under construction at South Korea’s Hyundai Mipo Dockyard today, upon which this vessel will start a three year time charter at approximately USD 17,250 per day, the company said in a release. TNG says this fixture outperforms the […]

  • Samsung launches Teekay’s first E-Shuttle tanker

    26 March 2019

    Teekay has launched the Aurora Spirit, its first shuttle tanker from the E-Shuttle Tanker series, from the G3 floating dock at South Korea’s Samsung.

  • 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.

  • SHI to Build Four Tankers for Norwegian Owner

    12 October 2016
    Business & Finance

    Norwegian Viken Shipping has ordered four oil tankers from South Korea’s shipbuilder Samsung Heavy Industries under a contract worth around KRW 240 billion (USD 213 million), according to Yonhap News Agency. Namely, the shipbuilder said that the deal involves a pair of Suezmaxes and two Aframax tankers, with capacities of 123,000 dwt and 157,000 dwt, respectively. The vessels are […]

  • Hyundai Heavy to Build Boxships, Tankers for IRISL

    12 December 2016
    Business & Finance

    South Korean shipbuilder Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) has signed contracts to construct 14,500 TEU container ships and 49,000 dwt product/chemical carriers for Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL). The value of the contracts, which were signed in Seoul on December 9, 2016, was not revealed. However, VesselsValue’s data suggests that the deals are worth USD […]

  • LNG Tanker Due at Zeebrugge Next Week

    13 May 2014
    Vessels

    The WilPride LNG tanker, with a capacity of 156,000 cubic meters, is expected to arrive at Belgium’s Zeebrugge LNG terminal from Qatar on May 23, according to port data. Fluxys of Belgium, the operator of the Zeebrugge LNG terminal, said that 37 LNG carriers unloaded at Zeebrugge in 2013, compared with 46 in 2012. The 37 […]