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  • Scorpio Tankers Inks Sale, Leaseback for Seven Units

    18 July 2018
    Business & Finance

    Scorpio Tankers agreed sale and leaseback for seven of its product tankers with an international financial institution.

  • UK-US duo buying Europe’s ‘largest’ LNG regasification facility

    14 August 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects

    U.K.-based energy company Centrica and U.S. investment firm Energy Capital Partners (ECP), part of Bridgeport Group, have set the wheels in motion to acquire the liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in Kent County, UK, from British electricity and gas utility, the National Grid group.

  • 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.

  • Navantia Starts Building First Tanker for Ibaizabal

    2 May 2016
    Business & Finance

    Spanish state-owned shipbuilder Navantia started constructing the first of four Suezmax tankers for compatriot ship manager the Ibaizábal Group. The 156,000 ton ships will be built at Navantia’s yards in the Bay of Cadiz, while some parts are scheduled for construction at the company’s Ria de Ferrol site. Featuring a length of 274 meters and a width of 48 meters, the […]

  • 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 […]

  • Stena Bulk Invests in Six Chemical Tankers

    13 February 2014
    Business & Finance

    Stena Bulk/Stena Weco and Golden Agri (GAR) have invested in a further six chemical tankers. Golden Stena Weco, which is a joint venture between Stena Weco and Golden Agri-Resources (GAR), will be responsible for the commercial management. The main aim of the investment is to ensure that Golden Stena Weco has the necessary resources to […]

  • Tanker Spills Diesel Fuel off Quebec

    9 October 2015
    Business & Finance

    A chemical/oil products tanker spilled some 3,000 litres of diesel during a routine fuel transfer near the community of Salluit, West of Ungava Bay, in Northern Quebec, on October 7. The 2007-built Sarah Desgagnés was transferring fuel to the community of Salluit in preparation for the winter months ahead. Strong winds and snow required the transfer be […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • Asia LNG Demand Boosts Tanker Orders

    19 August 2011

      Orders for liquefied natural gas tankers are surging with new LNG supply from Qatar and Peru and a tripling of day-rates for such ships now… (guardian) [mappress] Source: guardian, August 18, 2011;

  • 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 […]

  • Libya Arrests Tanker due to Oil Smuggling Suspicions

    16 March 2018
    Business & Finance

    Libya arrested the Togo-flagged bunkering tanker Lamar on suspicion of oil smuggling.

  • U.S. Shipping, NASSCO to build 9 tankers

    20 July 2006

    U.S. Shipping Partners LP (USS.N: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Wednesday its subsidiary, USS Product Carriers, has contracted with National Steel and Shipbuilding Co., or NASSCO, to build nine double-hulled tanker at a cost of $1 billion.

  • Iran’s Tankers to Sail under Panama’s Flag

    13 April 2016
    Business & Finance

    Iranian tankers are to be registered under Panama’s flag which will enable them to pass through one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes, the Panama Canal, the two countries agreed. Director of National Iranian Tanker Company (NITC) Ali Akbar Safaei announced the deal following a meeting with Jorge Barakat Pitty, Panama’s Minister of Maritime Affairs and Administrator of the […]

  • Terntank’s second LNG-powered tanker delivered

    14 September 2016
    Vessels

    Danish shipping company, Terntank Rederi informed it has taken delivery of its second LNG-powered newbuild at AVIC Dingheng Shipbuilding in China.

  • NAT: Political Uncertainty Helping Tanker Market Bonanza

    7 January 2020
    Business & Finance

    NAT starts the new quarter with a booking for its Suezmax tanker worth over USD 100,000 per day.

  • Pirates Kidnap Crew of Tanker MT Puli

    11 April 2016

    A group of eight pirates attacked the Malta-flagged tanker MT Puli and kidnapped the vessel’s crew members some 118 nautical miles off Port Harcourt, Nigeria, OPS Clearwater confirmed to World Maritime News after reports on the attack emerged in Turkish media. The incident, which occurred at 01:30 hours this morning, saw at least six seamen abducted from their […]

  • d’Amico Splashes Two New Handysize Tankers

    25 May 2016
    Business & Finance

    Shipping company d’Amico International Shipping S.A. launched two new 39,000 dwt Handysize eco product tankers today at the Vietnamese Hyundai Vinashin Shipyard Co. Ltd. The tankers, named Cielo di Capri and Cielo di Hanoi, feature a length of 184 metres and a width of 27.4 metres. These two eco-ships, which only differ in class as the first one is […]

  • Marinakis Linked to Tanker Duo at Daehan Shipbuilding

    18 September 2018
    Business & Finance

    Capital Maritime and Trading has placed an order for two 114,000 dwt tankers with Korean shipbuilder Daehan Shipbuilding.

  • Euronav’s Grounded Tanker to Be Refloated on May 4

    1 May 2017
    Business & Finance

    The recently grounded crude oil tanker M/T Alex could be set free on May 4 as the proposed ship refloating plan received approval from relevant authorities, according to the ship’s managers Euronav Ship Management. Namely, the Indonesian Authorities approved the salvage plan on April 27 and provided a permit for the lightening operation to be performed. According to the […]

  • Scorpio Tankers Adds Two to Its Newbuilding Fleet

    14 July 2015
    Business & Finance

    Tanker owner and operator Scorpio Tankers Inc. has entered into two separate agreements to purchase an MR product tanker and an LR2 product tanker that are currently under construction for a total of $95.5 million. The MR product tanker is being built by Hyundai Mipo Dockyard Co. Ltd. of South Korea (HMD) and has cost Scorpio approximately […]

  • Wärtsilä claims emissions reduction on Vitol’s tankers

    25 July 2023
    Business Developments & Projects, Technology

    Finnish technology company Wärtsilä has revealed that a study of operational data for two medium range (MR) product tankers fitted with its technology indicated significant emissions reductions.