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  • RS to Class Samsung Heavy’s Arctic Tankers

    30 December 2014
    Business & Finance

    Russian Maritime Register of Shipping (RS) has signed an agreement with the South Korean yard Samsung Heavy Industries on design approval and survey under construction of a new series of 42 000 dwt Arctic shuttle oil carriers. The new tankers are designed to complete a set of tasks of hydrocarbons transportation from Novoportovskoye field, which […]

  • Fifth APLNG-dedicated tanker delivered in China

    5 February 2018
    Vessels

    Chinese shipyard Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding delivered the 174,000-cbm liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier CESI Wenzhou to its owners on January 31. The dual fuel CESI Wenzhou is the fifth Australia Pacific LNG-dedicated tanker in a series of a total of six carriers that will be built at Hudong. The 290m-long LNG carrier will ship the chilled […]

  • Finland: Wartsila Unveils Aframax Tanker Design

    22 October 2012

    Wärtsilä, the marine industry’s leading solutions and services provider, has launched a new, highly efficient Aframax tanker design that offers solutions for current and forthcoming emissions legislation. Wärtsilä Ship Design has developed a double hull, single screw crude oil tanker featuring a CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) optimised hull to provide less resistance with higher propulsion […]

  • Tankers Flock Under Marshall Islands Flag

    10 October 2016

    The Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) Registry attained the status as the world’s largest tanker fleet with additional tonnage joining the registry from markets in Greece, the United States (US), and Asia. The RMI flagged tanker fleet now stands at 44.6 million gross tons (GT), while the registry’s overall fleet stands at 137.3 million gross […]

  • 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 […]

  • Shipping boss confident over tanker returns

    10 May 2010

    Booming Chinese demand and cancelled orders for new vessels should ensure continued strong returns for owners of tankers and dry bulk ships, one of the most successful shipping entrepreneurs of recent years has predicted. Peter Georgiopoulos’ comments follow the listing of his latest shipping venture, a dry bulk operator known as Baltic Trading on the […]

  • 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.

  • Maersk Tankers Names New MR Unit in China

    14 January 2019
    Business & Finance

    Danish owner and operator Maersk Tankers held a naming ceremony for its latest newbuilding on January 11.

  • JBIC Loans Money for LNG Tanker Construction

    15 November 2013

    The Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) has signed two loan agreements amounting up to 10,754 million Japanese yen and 10,955 million Japanese yen (JBIC portion) respectively, with LNG Fukurokuju Shipping Corporation (FUKUROKUJU) and LNG Jurojin Shipping Corporation (JUROJIN). The loans are co-financed with private financial institutions. These loans are intended to finance two companies to procure […]

  • OFE: A Glimmer of Hope for Asian Tanker Market

    13 April 2017
    Business & Finance

    Already at the start of the second quarter of 2017 Asia’s crude tanker market finds itself flooded with a flurry of newbuilds that hit the water over the last quarter, according to a report from Ocean Freight Exchange (OFE). New tonnage delivered hit 15 million dwt in the first quarter and is expected to stand […]

  • 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 […]

  • LNG-powered tanker Liselotte Essberger named in Hamburg

    8 December 2023
    Business Developments & Projects, Infrastructure, Vessels

    E&S Tankers, a Germany-based joint venture between shipping companies Essberger Tankers and Stolt Tankers, has christened the first of four new LNG-powered parcel chemical tankers.

  • 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 […]

  • Ningbo East Shipyard to Build World’s First NOBS Bunker Tankers

    30 April 2012

    Recently shipbuilding contracts were signed regarding the construction of two 6,500 DWT and two 4,500 DWT NOBS (Non Sea Water Ballast Ship) Bunker Tankers, the projects are united to invest by Zhejiang Huayun Shipping Co Ltd and Guangdong Zhanjiang Fuda Shipping (Fuel) Co Ltd and will be constructed by Ningbo East Shipyard Co Ltd. This […]

  • LNG Tanker Due at Canaport Terminal This Week

    22 January 2014

    Repsol YPF SA’s Canaport terminal in Canada is expected to get one LNG cargo onboard the 138,000 cbm Bilbao Knutsen from Trinidad and Tobago on Thursday, port data shows. Canaport LNG, located in Saint John, New Brunswick, is Canada’s only LNG import terminal and has a maximum send-out capacity of 1.2 Bcf or 28 million cubic […]

  • Pertamina Takes Delivery of Aframax Tanker from Chinese Shipyard

    7 December 2012
    Business & Finance

    New Century Shipbuilding (NCS) has delivered, three weeks ahead of schedule, an Aframax type Crude Oil Carrier with capacity of 85,000 DWT to the Indonesian owner Pertamina. The contract for construction of GAMKONORA was signed on 24 December 2010 with the total investment of US$ 52.8 million. The construction process of the ship has gone […]

  • Navig8 inks sale and leaseback deal for chemical tankers

    5 July 2021
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Infrastructure, Vessels

    Norway-listed tanker company Navig8 Chemical Tankers has entered into sale and leaseback agreements with Chinese Jiangsu Financial Leasing (JFL) for four chemical tankers.

  • Rockland trawler, Bahamian tanker collide in Atlantic

    6 October 2006

    The 108-foot fishing vessel Sunlight collided late Wednesday night with the 891-foot oil tanker Erik Spirit about 20 nautical miles southeast of Portland Head Light in the northern outbound shipping lane, the U.S. Coast Guard reported Thursday. Lt. Connie Braesch of the Coast Guard in Portland said one person on the Sunlight suffered minor injuries. […]

  • Two Crew Killed in LPG Tanker Blast

    11 December 2014

    Two crew members of South Korean tanker DL Calla were killed in an explosion that occurred late Wednesday offshore Malaysia, New Strait Times reports. Two more crew members sustained injuries in the blast and have been brought to a hospital in Kuala Terengganu. The explosion on board the vessel, loaded with liquefied natural gas, was caused by a gas leakage, the […]

  • Picture of the Day: Clean Force LNG tanker

    27 March 2015

    The 149,700 cbm Clean Force LNG carrier, owned by Dynagas, is currently docked at the QCLNG jetty off Gladstone, Australia. BG Group, the operator of the QCLNG project, has a charter contract with Dynagas for the 2008 built vessel which expires in July this year. Dynagas last year signed a 13-year time-charter contract with Gazprom Marketing […]

  • Belgium: LNG Tanker Scheduled at Zeebrugge This Week

    25 June 2012

    The Excelerate liquefied natural gas carrier, with a capacity of 138,000 cubic metres, is due to arrive in the Zeebrugge LNG terminal on June 28, according to shipping data. The liquefied natural gas carrier will probably load in a re-export cargo and depart from the Zeebrugge terminal next day. The Zeebrugge LNG terminal is situated on a […]

  • ITF: Crew of Stolt-Nielsen Tanker Unpaid

    13 July 2015
    Business & Finance

    Chinese seafarers aboard the Stolt Kikyo tanker, which berthed in Devonport, Tasmania early Sunday morning, are owed wages for two months and have not received coastal trading payments required under Australian law, shows an investigation by the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF). ITF assistant national coordinator Matt Purcell met with the twenty-four crew members of the […]

  • Weihai Samjin to Build Chemical Pair for Ocean Tankers

    15 December 2017
    Business & Finance

    Weihai Samjin shipyard has signed a contract with Ocean Tankers for the construction of two 11,000 dwt chemical tankers.

  • 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 […]

  • Cargill invests in Maersk Tankers’ digital spin-off

    3 September 2020
    Business & Finance, Collaboration, IT & Software, Technology, Vessels

    Swiss freight trader Cargill has invested in ZeroNorth, the recent spin-off from Maersk Tankers,  committing its entire operated fleet to use the Optimise software to reduce CO2 emissions through digital technology. The tie-up comes on the back of ZeroNorth’s announcement back in June that it was looking for a new investor alongside Maersk Tankers to grow […]