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  • Confused Councillors Retract Tanker Ban Votes

    12 August 2014
    Business & Finance

    Canada’s West Vancouver council is preparing to revisit the unanimously approved recommendation to ban LNG tanker traffic in Howe Sound after several councillors said they did not understand the content of the motion they voted on. Craig Cameron, one of the councillors confused by the matter, said he didn’t realize he had voted to send a […]

  • BP Lays Off Australian Tanker Crew

    18 May 2015
    Business & Finance

    Maritime workers outside BP’s Melbourne office staged a protest against the oil giant’s decision to lay off the Australian crew of the oil tanker British Loyalty, the third local tanker to stop operating along Australia’s coast in nearly as many months, The Sydney Morning Herald reports. BP decided to terminate the contract with the British Loyalty following […]

  • Spain: LNG Tanker Re-Enters Dock

    28 November 2011
    Business & Finance

    The Leif Höegh (UK) Ltd operated LNG Carrier Arctic Princess, a NIS-registered LNG carrier of 121 597 gross tonnes, registered high temperatures in the stern tube bearing shortly after leaving the El Ferrol yard for sea trial on the Atlantic Coast in north-western Spain, on the afternoon of 21 November. On the morning of the 24th […]

  • NITC Mulls Investment in LNG Tanker Fleet

    11 July 2017
    Business & Finance

    National Iranian Tanker Company (NITC) is considering venturing into the liquefied natural gas (LNG) market as Iran gears up for production of natural gas in the future. The plans were revealed by Mohammad Reza Shams Dolatabadi, NITC’s head of international affairs, Reuters reported, who said that NITC was looking into the acquisition of LNG tankers in the […]

  • Malaysia Closing Down on Tanker Hijacking Mastermind

    26 June 2015

    Malaysian authorities are close to identifying a person who planned the hijacking of the oil tanker MT Orkim Harmony, local media reported the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency’s deputy-director general Datuk Ahmad Puzi Ab Kahar as saying. The list of the so-called ”masterminds” behind the hijacking has been narrowed down to one name, Ahmad Puzi said. Ahmad Puzi […]

  • TORM Agrees Sale and Leaseback for Six Tankers

    15 August 2019
    Business & Finance

    Danish tanker shipping company TORM enters into six new sale and leaseback transactions.

  • Terntank orders new LNG-powered tankers

    6 November 2019
    Vessels

    Gothenburg-based shipping company Terntank has placed an order for two new LBG/LNG powered tankers on 15,000-dwt with the hybrid battery system and on-shore power at AVIC Dingheng Shipbuilding.

  • New Chinese Tanker Giant Company Is Born

    8 June 2016
    Business & Finance

    Chinese shipping major China COSCO Shipping Co. has established a new tanker shipping company named COSCO Shipping Energy Transportation Co.Ltd. The new company was officially launched on June 6th in Shanghai, marking the integration of COSCO’s shipping businesses and also opening a new page for energy transportation, Executive Vice President of China COSCO Shipping Corporation Limited Sun […]

  • Oil tanker replacements call for $7.5b expenditure

    15 May 2006

    According to a report by London-based shipbroker E.A. Gibson, shipowners may have to spend as much as $7.5 billion on new oil tankers to replace vessels that will be phased out by 2010. It estimates that to fill the shortfall and in addition to those newbuildings already ordered, at least 80 oil tankers (carrying cargoes […]

  • Euronav’s Tanker Runs Aground, Crew Safe

    13 April 2017

    Euronav’s crude oil tanker M/T Alex ran aground on Wednesday, April 12th on a soft mud bottom while sailing between Borneo and Sumatra on its way to Ningbo, China. According to the ship’s managers, Euronav Ship Management, the 299,446 DWT vessel was laden when it got grounded. “No injuries or pollution have been reported while the vessel remains […]

  • UK: Teekay’s Tanker for Xcite’s Bentley Oil

    14 December 2011
    Business & Finance

    Xcite Energy  has signed a letter of intent (“LoI”) with Teekay Shipping Norway AS (“Teekay”) for the provision of a shuttle tanker for the forthcoming Phase 1A of the Bentley field development programme. The LoI anticipates that XER and Teekay will enter into a definitive agreement for one of Teekay’s dynamically positioned shuttle tankers within […]

  • Explosion onboard Japanese Tanker Shoko Maru

    29 May 2014
    Business & Finance

    Four crew members have been seriously injured, and one is still missing after the Japanese tanker Shoko Maru exploded off the country’s south-west coast near Himeji port earlier this morning. Prior to the explosion, the 998-tonne tanker belonging to Syoho Shipping, unloaded the crude and was stationary close to Hyogo prefecture’s coast when the fire […]

  • Labrador tanker grounding ended well: owner

    13 October 2010

    The company that owns an oil tanker that briefly ran aground in a Labrador harbour on Monday says the incident ended as well as could have been expected. The MV Mokami hit a shoal in Cartwright as it was leaving a dock and was later freed by a rising tide. The tanker, which had just […]

  • Tanker detained under Maritime Safety Act

    10 May 2005

    Maritime safety authorities have launched an investigation into the deaths at sea of 14 South African chokka fishermen after a tanker collided with their trawler off Port Elizabeth. The 14 men are believed to have drowned when their 30-metre steel fishing vessel, the Lindsay, was hit by the 20 000-ton fruit juice tanker Ouro do […]

  • One Dead in LPG Tanker Explosion in Turkey

    3 July 2019
    Business & Finance

    The explosion occurred in the evening hours of June 1 due to an “unspecified” reasons.

  • Dryad: Pirates attempt to board LPG tanker

    1 May 2020
    Vessels

    Six pirates have been arrested for attempting to board an LPG tanker identified as Epic Bermuda while off Takoradi port in Ghana. The incident took place some 2.5. nautical miles east of Takoradi on April 30, maritime security firm Dryad Global said. “Reports suggest that during the initial boarding attempt the Officer on Watch noticed […]

  • Taiwan: LNG Tanker Due at Yung-An This Week

    29 May 2012
    Vessels

    Taiwan’s Yung-An LNG terminal is due to receive a cargo of liquefied natural gas this week, according to Kaohsiung Port Authority. The Puteri Zamrud tanker, with a capacity of 137,000 cbm, will reach Yung-An terminal on June 1. The Yung-An terminal is Taiwan’s first liquefied natural gas receiving terminal, and it is operated by CPC. […]

  • Scorpio Tankers: Financial Results for 4Q of 2013

    25 February 2014
    Business & Finance

    Scorpio Tankers Inc. has reported its results for the three months and year ended December 31, 2013 and increased its quarterly dividend to $0.08 per share. Results for the three months ended December 31, 2013 and 2012 For the three months ended December 31, 2013, the Company had net income of $5.8 million, or $0.03 […]

  • Scorpio Tankers Lands USD 196 Mn in Loans

    2 May 2018
    Business & Finance

    Scorpio Tankers has secured commitments from four European banks for up to USD 195.9 million worth of loans.

  • Bulk Carrier, Tanker Collide in Dover Strait

    3 July 2017
    Business & Finance

    A bulk carrier and an oil tanker collided in the Dover Strait in the early morning hours of June 1, according to the UK Coastguard. The officials informed that, although both vessels have been damaged, there was no water ingress and no pollution. A French tug was on scene with the vessels. Additionally, there were […]

  • Team Tankers Offloads Two More Older Ships

    15 November 2019
    Business & Finance

    Team Tankers is selling another two older vessels, pursuing its strategy aimed at younger ocean-going units.

  • Product Tanker Sector: The Safest Bet Are MRs

    6 June 2017
    Business & Finance

    Medium ranged product tankers (MRs) are definitely the workhorses of the product tanker shipping industry, being the most widely used vessels that can call at any port in the world including smaller and shallower ports, it was concluded during a webinar organized by Capital Link Shipping on June 1. MRs, capable of carrying multiple cargoes ranging […]

  • Libya-Bound Oil Tankers Facing Arrest

    9 July 2015

    Panama-flagged oil tanker Trident Hope and Greece-flagged crude oil tanker Minerva Alexandra, which are bound for Libya’s Ras Lanuf port, are facing arrest, according to the Petroleum Facilities Guard, the Libyan Army unit tasked with the protection of Libya’s oil facilities. Namely, the Guard said that it would impound any vessel that arrives there to load oil or […]

  • Two New Tankers Join Ardmore’s Fleet

    20 November 2015
    Business & Finance

    Cork-based Ardmore Shipping Corporation took delivery of two newbuilding product and chemical tankers, the Ardmore Chippewa and Ardmore Seahawk, on November 13, and November 16, 2015, respectively. Ardmore Chippewa is a 25,233 deadweight tonne, Eco-design IMO 2 product and chemical tanker constructed at the Japanese Fukuoka Shipbuilding Co., Ltd shipyard in Nagasaki. It is the final in […]

  • Tanker Thwarts Pirate Attack off Nigeria

    5 May 2016

    The string of attacks in the Gulf of Guinea continues as pirates attempted to board a tanker earlier today while underway some 36 nautical miles south west of Bayelsa coast, Nigeria. Specifically, a group of armed pirates in a speedboat chased and fired upon a tanker underway, the Maritime Trade and Information Sharing Centre for the Gulf of […]