Tankers
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Maersk Etienne crisis ends
A 38-day standoff onboard Maersk Tankers vessel has ended for 27 refugees, who transferred to charity rescue ship Mare Jonio…
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Premuda adds to fleet, seals new charter with Petrobras
Genoa-based Premuda has had a busy week bringing in one vessel and chartering out another. The company’s chief executive officer…
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Hunter Group buys back VLCC from SFL
Arne Fredly’s Oslo-listed pure-play VLCC company Hunter Group has declared its call option for 2019-built VLCC Hunter Laga under the…
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Salvors struggle to patch bunker leak on stricken VLCC off Sri Lanka
Salvors are still trying to patch a leak in one of the bunker compartments of the burnt VLCC. The New…
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Dingheng Shipping charters in two chemical tankers
Chinese chemical tanker sepcialist Dingheng Shipping has brought two chemical tankers into its fleet through bareboat charter agreements. The company…
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Weekly Broker: VLCCs bottom out
The sale and purchase market in both the dry and wet sectors had a dull week with no segment showing…
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ADS Crude Carriers offloads VLCC for $25.5m
Norway’s ADS Crude Carriers has reduced its fleet to two following the sale of scrubber-fitted 2002-built VLCC . ADS fetched…
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Bunker spill detected from burnt VLCC off Sri Lanka
Adam Polemis’s New Shipping and his recently selected P&I Club are facing a sizeable bill for the ongoing operation to…
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FSL Trust settles dispute with Torm
Singapore-based First Ship Lease Trust has announced that it has reached a final settlement agreement with Torm over a legal…
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D’Amico offloads product tanker
Italian owner d’Amico International Shipping has announced the sale of 2005-built MR product tanker via operating subsidiary d’Amico Tankers. The…
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Neste Oil acquires chemical tanker pair from Stenersen
Finnish owner Neste Oil has acquired two 2018-built 17,500 dwt chemical tankers from Norwegian owner Stenersen in an enbloc deal.…
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Fire reignites on laden VLCC off Sri Lanka
Sri Lankan authorities have spent the last 20 hours fighting to contain a reignited fire on the laden Panamanian-flagged VLCC…
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Explosion on Vietnamese tanker kills one
An explosion onboard the 2013-built product tanker at Dung Quat Port in Quang Ngai of Vietnam yesterday has resulted in…
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Maersk Etienne crisis escalates as three migrants jump ship
The month-long refugee crisis on the has dangerously escalated over the weekend after Maersk Tankers revealed that three migrants had…
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New Diamond VLCC blaze extinguished
The fire onboard New Shipping’s VLCC off Sri Lanka’s eastern waters was finally extinguished, nearly 79 hours after the incident…
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Sovcomflot sells aframax tanker
Russian state-run shipping major Sovcomflot has sold its 2002-built aframax tanker to UAE-based Khor Al Zubair Shipping. Both Clarksons and…
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Gulf Navigation shuffles management
UAE-based Gulf Navigation has had a management shuffle. Sheikh Theyab bin Tahnoon bin Mohammad Al Nahyan has been appointed chairman…
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Erik Thun appoints new chairman
Low-key Swedish shipowner Erik Thun has appointed prominent executive Margareta Alestig as its new chairman. Alestig is the deputy managing…
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Blazing fully laden VLCC towed away from Sri Lankan coastline
Naval ships and airplanes from India, Sri Lanka and Russia continue to douse the blaze on the fully laden VLCC…
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US blacklists another 11 companies for facilitating Iranian petrochemical shipments
The US government has added another 11 companies to its sanctions blacklist for allegedly facilitating Iranian exports of petrochemical products…
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