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  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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.

  • 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 […]

  • Malaysia Sends Planes in Search of Missing Tanker

    17 June 2015
    Business & Finance

    Malaysia has deployed five aircraft to help the thirteen vessels already searching for the tanker MV Orkim Harmony which has been missing since June 11, according to local media.  Two aircraft from the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA), two from the Royal Malaysian Air Force and one from the Royal Malaysian Navy started scanning the South China Sea yesterday, significantly […]

  • Pirates Kidnap Five Tanker Crew Members

    2 February 2016

    The 2003-built tanker Leon Dias was hijacked by pirates in the Gulf of Guinea, UK-based Clearwater Vessel Tracking confirmed to World Maritime News. “A tanker was underway from Lome to Bata when the owners lost contact with their vessel, it was later discovered that pirates had managed to board and hijack the vessel, a militant group are […]

  • World’s first pure battery tanker completes inaugural bunkering op

    27 April 2022
    Infrastructure, Outlook & Strategy, Transition, Vessels

    On April 26, Asahi, the world’s first pure battery tanker, supplied the car carrier Victorious Ace with fuel at the Daikoku Pier C-1 Wharf in Yokohama.

  • STX Launches LNG Tanker SCF Mitre

    11 February 2014
    Vessels

    STX Offshore & Shipbuilding has launched the second ice class LNG tanker, SCF Mitre, ordered by Russia’s Sovcomflot under a long-term agreement with Shell, the Russian Maritime Register of Shipping (RS) said in a statement. The first tanker, SCF Melampus, was launched on 5 November 2013. The delivery of SCF Melampus is planned for the […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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.

  • Toisa Secures Charter for Tanker United Ideal

    24 March 2017
    Business & Finance

    US-based energy major Chevron Corporation has agreed to ratify a charter contract for the crude oil tanker United Ideal, according to offshore support vessels operator Toisa Limited. The owner of the 161,800 dwt tanker said that the deal, agreed on March 22, will cover the vessel’s charter on a 30-day or more voyage from the Arabian […]

  • Odfjell Confirms Chemical Tanker Duo Order

    10 April 2017
    Business & Finance

    Norwegian shipping and tank terminal company Odfjell has signed final shipbuilding contracts for the construction of two chemical tankers with Chinese shipbuilder Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding. The tankers, which will have 40 stainless steel cargo tanks, will feature 38,000 dwt and a cargo capacity of about 45,000 cbm. Both tankers will be prepared for dual fuel solution, Odfjell earlier […]

  • Pirates Attack Tanker Bouboulina in Gulf of Guinea

    8 July 2016
    Business & Finance

    A group of armed pirates has approached and opened fire upon a tanker which was underway some 89 nautical miles off the coast of Brass, Nigeria, according to data provided by the International Maritime Bureau’s Piracy Reporting Centre (IMB PRC). The vessel in question was reportedly the 2006-built Suezmax tanker Bouboulina. IMB PRC said that, as […]

  • Concordia Maritime Extends Charters for Tanker Duo

    30 December 2014
    Business & Finance

    Swedish tanker shipping company Concordia Maritime has renewed its contract with Stena Bulk for a consecutive voyage charter arrangement for the P-MAX tankers Stena Provence and Stena Polaris. The agreement will run until the summer of 2015. The vessels’ LOA is 183 meters, the same as conventional MR tankers, but they have a beam of 40 meters enabling […]