Tankers
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Kirsi Tikka appointed to Ardmore’s board
Shipping lines keen to advance their understanding on sustainability issues are increasingly peppering their boards with experts in this field.…
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Clarkson downgrades tonne-mile forecasts
Clarkson Research Services, one of the world’s largest shipping analyst firms, has downgraded its tonne-mile projections with a warning from…
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Splash Podcast: Sand and steel
The Deep Dive returns with a provocative pod looking at what are the right and wrong datasets to focus on…
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Altomare snaps up VLCC from NYK
Greece’s Altomare has acquired 2005-built 310,300 dwt Imabari VLCC , according to broking sources. Altomare has taken the Toyo from…
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Soechi Lines takes Meiji Shipping supramax
Indonesian tanker owner Soechi Lines has acquired the 2005-built aframax bulker from Japanese owner Meiji Shipping According to shipbroking sources,…
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Ancora swoops for Teekay product tanker
Ancora Investment Trust has acquired 2007-built MR1 product tanker from Teekay LNG Partners, multiple brokers report. The Greek MR product tanker…
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An autumn of discontent? The Saudi Arabia energy attacks in context
MSI maintains a broadly positive outlook for large oil tankers, but the overall effect of higher oil prices on the…
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Weekly Broker: Cape bargains on offer
The dry bulk sale and purchase market has picked up again despite the recent sluggish freight market with bargain hunters…
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Frontline passes on options for Trafigura suezmaxes
John Fredriksen’s Frontline says that it has elected not to exercise an option with Trafigura subsidiary Trafigura Maritime Logistics (TML)…
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Sergey Frank to step aside at Sovcomflot
Sergey Frank will step down from his position of CEO at Russian state-owned shipowner Sovcomflot. Frank will be installed as…
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Bahri confirms VLCC order at International Maritime Industries
Saudi Arabian owner Bahri has officially signed shipbuilding contracts with International Maritime Industries (IMI) for the construction of one 319,000…
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Maersk Tankers takes seven MR tankers from AET
Denmark’s Maersk Tankers has acquired seven 38,000 dwt STX-built MR1 tankers from Malaysian-owned AET in an en bloc deal, according…
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VLCC rates leap in wake of Saudi attacks
VLCC rates from the Arabian Gulf and West Africa to Asia leapt more than 10% yesterday and are continiuing to…
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Gulf disruption solidifies structural tanker market shift
J Mintzmyer from Value Investor’s Edge gives his take on the Saudi attacks and the tanker trades. This simply accelerates…
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BULL charges for two more aframaxes
Five month after announcing it was raising $84m for new ships, 20-ship strong Indonesian tanker owner Buana Lintas Lautan (BULL)…
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Cargill puts entire MR fleet into Maersk Tankers’ MR pool
Cargill is putting its MR fleet into Maersk Tankers’ MR pool from the start of next month. The pool will…
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HSFO prices set to leap in wake of Saudi attacks
The attack on Saudi Arabian oil infrastructure over the weekend has shut down around 6m barrels per day of output,…
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Ship Finance International changes name to SFL Corporation
John Fredriksen’s Ship Finance International Limited has changed its name to SFL Corporation Ltd at the company’s annual general meeting.…
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Engine room fire on Dubai Navigation aframax sees Sture terminal evacuated
A fire in the engine room of aframax tanker saw Equinor’s Sture terminal evacuated on Friday. The terminal, located at…
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Suezmaxes the winners from Chinese oil tariffs
Last month’s decision by Beijing to slap a retaliatory 5% tariff on imports of US crude oil will hurt VLCC…
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