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  • Pemex Oil Tanker on Fire in Gulf of Mexico

    26 September 2016
    Business & Finance

    The 2005-built oil tanker Burgos ignited on Saturday while it was in the Gulf of Mexico, according to the ship’s operator, the Mexican state-owned petroleum company Mexican Petroleums (Pemex). The fire occurred while the vessel, which was loaded with more than 160 thousand barrels of gasoline and diesel fuel, was anchored off the coast of Boca del Rio, Veracruz. Pemex said that the […]

  • Dynagas Eyes Five More LNG Tankers

    15 May 2015
    Business & Finance

    Dynagas LNG Partners is looking into the opportunity of acquiring five LNG carriers currently owned by the company’s sponsor, Dynagas Holding Ltd. Namely, the tanker owner, which has increased the size of its fleet by approximately 69% on a cubic meter capacity basis in 2014, said it was continuing its focus on further fleet growth. “The fleet […]

  • Hyundai Mipo Nabs Product Tanker Trio

    30 November 2017
    Business & Finance

    South Korean shipbuilder Hyundai Mipo Dockyard (HMD) has sealed a contract for the construction of three petrochemical product tankers. The deal is worth KRW 114.7 billion (USD 105.5 million), the shipbuilder said in a regulatory filing. The order has been placed by a European shipowner, the identity of which was not disclosed. The vessels are […]

  • Thun Empower LNG-fueled chemical tanker delivered

    22 November 2021
    Infrastructure, Vessels

    Swedish shipping company Thun Tankers has welcomed the last in a series of LNG-fueled chemical tankers built by Dutch shipbuilder Ferus Smit.

  • Ocean Yield Invests in Two Chemical Tankers

    27 September 2016
    Business & Finance

    Norwegian ship-owner Ocean Yield ASA has agreed to acquire two 45,000 dwt IMO II chemical tankers for a consideration of USD 35 million per vessel in combination with 12-year “hell and high” bareboat charters to maritime services provider Navig8 Group. Built in 2013, the two chemical tankers are scheduled to be delivered to Ocean Yield by the end […]

  • HVS Floats Product Tanker ‘High Sun’

    15 January 2014

    Hyundai – Vinashin Shipyard has launched a new 50,000 DWT Product Tanker ‘High Sun’. The launching ceremony for the Hull No. S408 was attended by the representatives of d’Amico (the owner of the vessel), HVS, and class (RINA). The main particulars of the vessels are as follows: Length : 183 m Breadth : 32.2 m Depth […]

  • IMB: Armed Pirates Board Tanker off Nigeria

    17 April 2019

    Armed pirates attacked an anchored product tanker off Nigeria earlier this week.

  • USCG Medevacs Tanker Crew Member off Texas

    7 October 2019
    Business & Finance

    The captain of the crude oil tanker requested the medevac of a 20-year-old male crewmember.

  • Oil tanker Makhambet launched at Viborg shipyard

    31 July 2006

    Oil tanker Makhambet for Mobilex Energy of Kazakhstan is launched at Viborg shipyard today. The vessel is purposed for crude oil and oil products transportation in Caspian Sea, Trend reports. The tanker was designed in Vimpel construction bureau. Makhambet is the sixth in a row built and commissioned at Viborg Shipyard OAO for Kazakh customers. […]

  • EPS books LNG-powered Suezmax tankers at Chinese shipyard

    23 July 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Infrastructure, Vessels

    Singapore-based shipowner Eastern Pacific Shipping (EPS) has ordered up to four LNG-powered Suezmax tankers at Hengli Heavy Industry in China.

  • British experts arriving to salvage sunken tanker

    15 August 2006

    To fasttrack the containment operations of the oil spill here, a group of British experts will be arriving Thursday. Their mission is to first conduct an underwater survey in the area where the m/t Solar I sank and, if they can reached the depth where it now lies, puncture and salvage the vessel as soon […]

  • Odfjell: Further Progress in Chemical Tanker Market

    23 August 2013
    Business & Finance

    EBITDA of USD 36 million in the second quarter is reflecting a better utilization of Odfjell’s chemical tanker fleet and a somewhat better market. The company experienced steady nomination of contract cargoes and improved spot rates. Earnings on a time- charter basis ended up 8% compared to the previous quarter, and the average freight rate […]

  • New rules spark rise in orders for tankers

    28 March 2006

    SINGAPORE Shipowners are rushing to order oil tankers from yards including Hyundai Heavy Industries in South Korea before stricter design rules take effect Saturday, increasing the cost of vessels.

  • Sertanejo Spirit shuttle tanker named in Brazil

    13 May 2014

    Teekay Offshore has announced that on May 6 Sertanejo Spirit shuttle tanker was officially welcomed at the Rio harbor in Brazil. Sertanejo Spirit is one of Teekay Offshore’s new Samba Class shuttle tankers to operate for BG in Brazil under 10-year time-charters. The DP2 shuttle tanker is designed for offshore loading and is, according to […]

  • UK: Construction of Tanker Lerrix Nears Completion

    9 January 2012

    Construction of the 53m-long tanker Lerrix, whose role will be filling the tanks of larger ocean-going ships with fuel, will be soon completed. The vessel will account for the biggest ship built on the Humber in decades. Building of the stern section of the vessel has been conducted at Hepworth’s Shipyard at Paull as part […]

  • BIMCO: 2018 Absolutely Horrible for Crude Oil Tankers

    10 July 2018
    Business & Finance

    A historically bad crude oil tanker market is struggling to find solid support, BIMCO said in its latest report.

  • Fire strikes Providence dock as tanker unloading

    19 July 2006

    Fire engulfed a dock at the Port of Providence on Tuesday night when lightning struck as a tanker was unloading gasoline, sending large plumes of smoke and fireballs into the air.Coast Guard officials said the Nord Europa, a Danish ship, was able to safely pull away from the dock. Assistant Fire Chief Mark Pare said […]

  • BIMCO: Tanker Freight Rates Continue Dropping

    24 April 2017
    Business & Finance

    Oil tankers experienced a tough start to 2017 as freight rates for all crude oil and oil product tankers continued their decline following the brief lift at year-end, according to international shipping association BIMCO. Although average earnings stood at USD 18,853 per day by April 7, 2017, down from USD 63,284 per day reported on December 16, 2016, […]

  • Hanjin in first tanker orders for Philippines yard

    26 March 2007

    South Korea’s Hanjin Heavy Industries Co. has won its first orders to build oil tankers at its new shipyard in the Philippines, company sources said today, a deal worth an estimated US0 million.

  • Spotted: Terntank Welcomes Second Chemical Tanker

    13 September 2016
    Business & Finance

    On September 12, 2016, Swedish tanker owner Terntank took delivery of M/T Ternfjord – the second in a series of four 15,000 dwt chemical tankers with a dual-fuel two-stroke engine being built by China’s Avic Dingheng Shipbuilding.  M/T Ternfjord left the shipyard one day later to load cargo destined for Europe. Terntank earlier said the vessel will […]

  • Tanker and Bulk Carrier Collide off Bosphorus

    1 September 2015
    Business & Finance

    A product tanker laden with fuel oil collided with a dry bulk carrier carrying wheat around 11:30 pm local time last night in the Black Sea, some eight nautical miles off the northern entrance to the Bosphorus Strait, Turkey’s General Directorate of Coastal Safety reports. The 17,060 dwt, 1988-built product tanker Paros Wind was carrying fuel […]

  • Tanker Crew Member Medevaced off New Orleans

    25 February 2019

    The 186-meter tanker reported a crew member with appendicitis-type symptoms.

  • Odfjell orders two LNG-ready chemical tankers

    10 April 2017
    Project & Tenders, Vessels

    Norwegian shipping company Odfjell signed final shipbuilding contracts with China’s Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding for the construction of two LNG-ready chemical tankers.

  • Tanker Investments Adds Four More to Its Fleet

    9 May 2014
    Business & Finance

    Tanker Investments Ltd. said that it has agreed to acquire two 2012-built coated Aframax tankers from a third party for an aggregate purchase price of $95 million. These two vessels are expected to join Tanker Investments’ fleet upon closing in late-May and early-June 2014 and will continue to trade in the Teekay Taurus Pool. The […]

  • AET names shuttle tanker chartered to Statoil

    7 September 2015

    Singapore’s AET has named its newest vessel, a 120,000 DWT DP2 shuttle tanker “Eagle Bergen”, which is fixed on a long-term charter to the Norwegian oil and gas major Statoil, to provide shuttle tanker services for its oil production on the Norwegian continental shelf. “Eagle Bergen” is the second of two vessels built by Samsung Heavy […]