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  • d’Amico Considers Ordering New Tankers, Italy

    4 December 2012

    d’Amico International Shipping S.A., based in Italy, plans to order two 40,000 DWT eco design product carriers from South Korea, Shipping Herald reports. It seems that d’Amico plans to exercise an option for two more product carriers with Hyundai Mipo Dockyard (HMD) after the company ordered vessels of the same type in July and September. […]

  • Terntank names two LNG-powered tankers

    7 April 2016
    Vessels

    Danish shipping company, Terntank Rederi recently held a naming ceremony for the two of its four LNG-powered newbuilds at AVIC Dingheng Shipbuilding in China.

  • Maersk hires war ship to protect tanker

    4 January 2010

    Danish shipper A.P. Moller Maersk has hired out soldiers and a warship from Tanzania to protect its fleet in pirate-ridden waters off the coast of Africa, and now other shippers are expected to follow suit. Maersk hired the warship through former special forces soldiers working for firm Guardian GBS security in December 2008.

  • Meyer werft: New orders for gas tankers

    6 July 2006

    The Hamburg shipping company

  • Navig8 Chemical Tankers’ Income Down, Revenue Up

    9 November 2016
    Business & Finance

    Due to a soft chemical tanker sector, the chemical shipping company Navig8 Chemical Tankers reported a drop in net income to USD 3.7 million for the three months ended September 30, 2016, compared to a net income of USD 9.6 million seen in the same quarter of 2015. The company said that the decrease in net income […]

  • Thun Tankers names new LNG-powered vessel

    17 December 2018
    Vessels

    Sweden’s Thun Tankers on Saturday held a naming ceremony for its new liquefied natural gas (LNG)-powered tanker in Groningen, Holland. The tanker named Thun Evolve and built at Dutch Ferus Smit shipyard will be long-term leased by Preem for deliveries to the company’s depots and customers in Sweden, Norway and Denmark, according to a statement by Thun […]

  • ERRIA Delivers Fourth Vessel to Uni-Tankers (Italy)

    24 April 2012
    Business & Finance

    ERRIA, a shipping company specialized in providing administrative ship management, announced that it has sold and transferred vessel named Erria IDA in Augusta, Sicily on April 23, to the Uni-Tankers shipping line. Erria IDA is the fourth of nine vessels that the company is planning to sell. MT Erria DORTHE is the next ship expected […]

  • Ultranav, Beyond the Sea to install kite-based propulsion system on chemical tanker

    19 May 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Infrastructure, Innovation, Outlook & Strategy, Vessels

    Chile-based shipping group Ultranav has entered into a co-development agreement with Beyond the Sea, a French pioneer in kite-powered propulsion, to bring kite-powered propulsion to commercial shipping.

  • Turkey: Besiktas Shipyard Delivers Fourth Armada Tanker

    24 October 2011
    Business & Finance

    The fourth tanker of Armada type built by Besiktas Shipyard in Yalova, Turkey, named Gobustan, has sailed from the Shipyard on October 23, 2011. The tanker proceeds for loading 6000 metric tons sunflower seed oil from Rostov to one port of Mediterranean sea. Besiktas Shipyard is one of the best established ship building and ship […]

  • Weak Product Tanker Market Pushes Hafnia to Loss

    17 November 2017
    Business & Finance

    Denmark-based shipping company Hafnia Tankers ended the third quarter of this year with a net loss of USD 7.3 million, compared to a profit of USD 2.3 million posted in the corresponding period a year earlier.  “The overall product tanker market weakened further during the third quarter of 2017, reflecting the ongoing imbalance between supply […]

  • Nordic American Tankers Ready for Different Market Outcomes

    10 November 2014
    Business & Finance

    Nordic American Tankers has set out strategies for both a strong future tanker market and a weak one, saying that if the market improves, higher earnings and dividends can be expected, and if the rates remain low, the company will be in a position to buy secondhand vessels or newbuildings. The development of the world economy affects the tanker industry, […]

  • TOP Ships Takes Delivery of Its First Newbuild MR Tanker

    24 June 2014
    Business & Finance

    TOP Ships Inc., an international owner and operator of MR tanker vessels focusing on the transportation of petroleum products, has taken delivery of the EShips Taweelah.   The newbuild is a 50,000 dwt fuel efficient “ECO” MR product tanker and the first of six vessels under construction in TOP Ship’s fleet. Another five vessels are […]

  • Bermuda: Frontline Sells Suezmax Tanker ‘Front Hunter’

    31 October 2011
    Business & Finance

      Frontline Ltd. has entered into an agreement to sell its 1996-built Suezmax tanker Front Hunter to VTN Shipping Group, a related party. The vessel will cease to trade in the spot tanker market, and delivery is expected to take place in November 2011. The sale will result in a net cash outflow of approximately […]

  • Three kidnapped from tanker off Nigerian coast

    22 May 2020
    Infrastructure, Safety, Vessels

    Three crew members were kidnapped from a tanker at Opobo river mouth, some 27 nautical miles off east of Bonny, Nigeria, on 20 May 2020.

  • Performance Shipping Buying Its First Two Tankers

    12 June 2019
    Business & Finance

    Performance Shipping, former Diana Containerships, is to purchase two Aframax tankers for USD 60 million.

  • Teekay Tankers Sees Signs of Market Upturn in 2017

    23 February 2017
    Business & Finance

    2017 will present some headwinds to crude tanker rates due to cuts to OPEC production, rising oil prices, and fleet growth, however, this dip in the current market cycle will be relatively short and shallow according to Teekay Tankers, part of the Teekay Corporation. In addition, lower fleet growth, strong oil demand growth, particularly in […]

  • Gallery: Terntank Takes Delivery of First Dual-Fuel Product Tanker

    29 June 2016
    Business & Finance

    Swedish tanker owner Terntank took delivery on June 28 of M/T Ternsund – the first in a series of four 15,000 dwt chemical tankers with dual-fuel two-stroke engine being built by China-based Avic Dingheng Shipbuilding.  The dual-fuel product tanker left the shipyard on June 28 and is en route to Singapore, where it will load cargo destined […]

  • Navig8 Chemical Inks Sale and Leaseback for Tanker Duo

    16 September 2016
    Business & Finance

    Navig8 Chemical Tankers, a joint venture between the Navig8 Group and Oaktree Capital Management, has entered into a sale and leaseback transaction for two 25,000 dwt stainless steel chemical tankers being built by Japan’s Kitanihon Shipbuilding. Under the agreement, which was entered into with subsidiaries of Japan-based financial services company SBI Holdings, the vessels will be bought by SBI on […]

  • APT Expands Fleet with New ECO Class Tanker

    28 July 2016
    Business & Finance

    Crude oil transporter American Petroleum Tankers (APT) took delivery of the ECO Class tanker Garden State from California-based shipbuilder General Dynamics NASSCO on July 25. The vessel is the third of five tankers within the contract between NASSCO and APT, which calls for the design and construction of five 50,000 dwt, LNG-conversion-ready product carriers with a 330,000 barrel cargo […]

  • Stolt Tankers’ Unit Hit by Explosion in Port of Ulsan

    30 September 2019
    Business & Finance

    The fire following the explosion on Stolt Groenland spread to an adjacent tanker at the port.

  • Seventh Chemical Tanker Joins Ocean Yield’s Fleet

    3 October 2016
    Business & Finance

    Norwegian ship-owner Ocean Yield ASA has taken delivery of Navig8 Tourmaline, a 49,000 dwt IMO II chemical tanker, from South Korean shipbuilder STX.  After being delivered from the shipyard, the vessel commenced a 15-year “hell and high water” bareboat charter to Navig8 Chemical Tankers, entering the Chronos8 Pool. The Navig8 Tourmaline is the seventh vessel delivered in […]

  • Thun Tankers Christens LNG-Fueled Ship in Stockholm

    12 September 2019
    Business & Finance

    The 18,000 dwt ship, built by Avic Dingheng, is the third from a batch of six Sweden-flagged sister vessels.

  • USCG Medevacs Man from Tanker in Gulf of Mexico

    19 June 2017
    Business & Finance

    A 44-year-old man was medevaced from the chemical tanker Argent Eyebright some 120 miles southeast of Galveston on June 18, according to the United States Coast Guard. In the early morning hours the ship’s agent of the 2009-built tanker contacted Coast Guard Sector Houston-Galveston watchstanders to report that the crewmember was experiencing stroke-like symptoms and was […]

  • Maersk Tankers’ Ship to Test Wind Propulsion Equipment

    14 March 2017
    Business & Finance

    Maersk Tankers, tanker arm of the Danish shipping conglomerate Maersk, has partnered up with Norsepower Oy, The Energy Technologies Institute (ETI), and Shell Shipping & Maritime, to install and trial Flettner rotor sails onboard one of the company’s tankers. Maersk Tankers will supply a 109,647-dwt Long Range 2 (LR2) product tanker vessel which will be retrofitted […]

  • MOL, Viken establish shuttle tanker joint venture

    3 September 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    Japan’s Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. today announced that the company has decided to establish a ship-owning joint venture with Norway-based Viken Shipping AS and participate in a shuttle tanker project.