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  • Bay Shipbuilding Gets Contract for Oil Tanker

    23 November 2005

    Bay Shipbuilding in Sturgeon Bay has been awarded a contract to build an ocean-worthy oil tanker. The ocean-class, double-hull, hot oil tank barge will be 369 feet in length and have an 80,000 barrel capacity. It’s scheduled for delivery in approximately one year.

  • Nakilat orders $3bn of natural gas tankers

    20 September 2006

    Qatar Gas Transport Co ordered $3 billion of natural gas tankers from South Korean companies including Hyundai Heavy Industries as the state prepares to triple exports of the fuel. Qatar Gas, the second-largest energy company on the Morgan Stanley Capital International Gulf Countries Index, ordered the 10 tankers for delivery in 2009, Muhammad Ghannam, the […]

  • Sirius Orders Two Tankers at AVIC Dingheng

    23 September 2016
    Business & Finance

    Swedish shipping company Sirius Shipping has placed an order for two 7,999 dwt oil/chemical tankers at China’s AVIC Dingheng Shipyard. The two vessels are scheduled for delivery in 2018, Sirius said without revealing the value of the contract. The 9,500 cbm tankers will have ICE class 1A and will be equipped with the latest technology and comply […]

  • Update: Oil Spills from Ruptured Tanker

    6 February 2017

    India has deployed its Coast Guard teams to respond to and monitor an oil spill which occurred after a liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) carrier BW Maple and the oil tanker Dawn Kanchipuram collided near Ennore’s Kamarajar Port. The oil tanker, which was carrying 32,813 tonnes of petroleum, oils and lubricants, suffered a rupture which led to an engine oil […]

  • Euronav Expects Strong Tanker Market in Q3

    30 July 2015
    Business & Finance

    Sustained improvement in tanker freight rates has driven Euronav’s EBITDA up to USD 142.3 million in the second quarter of 2015 ended June 30, the tanker owner and operator said in its preliminary financial results. Freight rates throughout the three months to the end of June were consistently strong in both the VLCC and Suezmax […]

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Concordia: Tanker of the future named in the center of Stockholm

    7 June 2006

    Concordia Maritime’s Swedish-flagged product tanker Stena Primorsk, the third P-MAX tankers in a series of eight, will be named on 9 June. The total investment for the eight vessels amounts to SEK 2.4 billion. Transport economy, flexibility and further raising the safety level have guided the development work involving the P-MAX concept. The Stena Primorsk […]

  • Team Tankers International Shakes Up Fleet

    26 February 2016
    Business & Finance

    Tanker owner Team Tankers International Ltd. has engaged in considerable reshuffling of its fleet with a dozen of vessel transactions carried out since November. The most recent ones saw Team Tankers sell the 20,000 dwt stainless steel ship the North Fighter, and agreeing to sell two 3,500 dwt stainless steel ships, the Sichem Colibri and […]

  • 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.

  • Fire aboard Turkish Tanker, Crew Evacuated

    10 March 2017

    A fire broke out on board the Turkish-flagged tanker Izmail 2 on Tuesday evening, March 7 while the ship was at Hereke Demir anchorage. Once informed of the incident the Turkish Coast Guard sent lifeboat Kıyem 2 and Söndüren 7 tug to the scene to put out the fire. The three crew members of the stricken […]

  • 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 […]

  • Product tanker deliveries to jump 256% in 2025

    16 January 2025
    Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy

    Product tanker newbuild deliveries are expected to reach 12 million deadweight tonnes (dwt) in 2025, with deliveries set to jump 256% compared to the 3.4 million dwt delivered in 2024, shipping association BIMCO revealed.

  • Wärtsilä to Power Thun Tankers’ New Ships

    20 June 2017
    Business & Finance

    Finnish technology group Wärtsilä has been contracted to supply the engines, propellers, and fuel supply systems for four new tanker vessels being built for Sweden-based Erik Thun AB. The ships, which will run on both liquefied natural gas (LNG) and diesel, are under construction at the Scheepswerf Ferus Smit yard in the Netherlands. Wärtsilä said that […]

  • Milaha, UACC Talk Tanker Fleet Merger

    13 April 2015
    Business & Finance

    Qatar-based holding company Milaha has launched talks with United Arab Chemical Carriers Ltd. (UACC) on a possible combination of their respective product and chemical tanker businesses. “If successful, this move is expected to result in a larger and stronger business, provide better financial returns, and strengthen the combined business market position,” Milaha said in a disclosure on […]

  • 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 […]

  • AET Inks Order for Eight Tanker Newbuilds

    28 October 2015
    Business & Finance

    Singapore tanker owner and operator AET has signed contracts for eight new vessels in a deal valued at approximately USD 500 million. Samsung Heavy Industries Co Ltd (SHI) has been contracted to build four Aframax vessels of 113,000 dwt to be delivered in 2018. A further contract was signed today with Hyundai Heavy Industries Co […]

  • USA: Aker Philadelphia Shipyard Starts to Build Product Tanker

    25 October 2011
    Business & Finance

    Aker Philadelphia Shipyard​, a leading U.S. commercial shipyard, held a ceremonial keel laying this morning for Ship 017, the 13th product tanker being built at the yard. Following long held shipbuilding tradition, coins were placed on one of the keel blocks that support the vessel during construction before the section of the ship was lowered […]

  • 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 […]

  • CSDC Orders Four Tankers from Guangzhou

    30 June 2015
    Business & Finance

    Hong Kong-listed China Shipping Development Company Limited has entered into a deal with Guangzhou Shipyard for construction of four tankers, worth a total of  USD 199.9 million. The four crude /product oil carriers boast 114,000 dead weight tons each and are expected to start delivery by 31 March 2017 and conclude the delivery by the end of December 2017. The […]

  • Eletson Acquires Three Panamax Product Tankers

    30 January 2014
    Business & Finance

    Eletson Holdings Inc. has entered, through subsidiaries, into definitive agreements to acquire three Korean built 2004 Panamax (LR1) product tankers for a price of $66.3mil. The expected delivery dates of the vessels are end January 2014, end March 2014 and early April 2014. These acquisitions were funded by proceeds from the Company’s recent 9.625% First […]

  • 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.

  • Sovcomflot’s New Tanker Christened in South Korea

    22 January 2013
    Business & Finance

    On 16 January, 2013, in Pusan (South Korea), a grand naming ceremony took place for Sovcomflot Group’s new tanker. The vessel was named in honour of the distinguished Russian maritime lawyer Anatoly Lazarevich Kolodkin. This vessel is the third to be built as part of an agreement between OAO Sovcomflot and Zvezda-DSME shipyard – a […]

  • Somalian pirates in daring attack on oil tanker

    21 April 2008

    Heavily armed pirates on Monday attacked and damaged a huge oil tanker off the Somali coast using machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades, a Malaysian-based maritime watchdog said. Noel Choong, head of the International Maritime Bureau’s (IMB) Piracy Reporting Centre, said that the attack, believed to be by Somali pirates, took place under the cover of […]

  • 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 […]