Tankers
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Engineers admit illegally discharging oily water from d’Amico tanker
Two Italian engineers on Thursday admitted to a US federal court that they dumped oily waste from a tanker into…
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F.lli d’Amico Armatori: Innovation challenge for tankers
In the near future for liquid bulk business there will be two main challenges: a likely downturn in freight rates…
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Winson takes second V-Max from Gener8 Maritime
Winson Shipping is doubling its VLCC fleet size, adding its second ship in less than a month brokers tell Splash.…
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Tanker collision off Japan
Japanese authorities spent Sunday cleaning up a big tanker smash off Kehin Port in Kawasaki prefecture. The Eastern Phoenix was…
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Navig8 Product Tankers secures sale and leaseback deal for trio
Navig8 Product Tankers has entered into sale and leaseback agreements with China’s Bank of Communications Finance Leasing for three of…
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Stolt-Nielsen chooses Keppel for a pair of new LNG tankers
Oslo-listed Stolt-Nielsen has decided to award the construction of two (with options for further two) LNG tankers with 7,500 cu…
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Market pushes Teekay’s Tanker Investments into a new strategy
Oslo-listed Tanker Investments, Teekay Corporation’s special investment company, has revealed a change of business strategy while releasing its second quarter…
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Top Ships secures financing for product tanker
Greek tanker operator Top Ships has entered into a senior secured facility with a major northern European bank for the…
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Eurotankers linked with MOL VLCC buy
Eurotankers has paid Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) $28.3m for a 13-year-old VLCC, brokers report. The Greek outfit has taken the…
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Team Tankers offloads small chemical carrier
Brokers are reporting Team Tankers has sold a 2007-built chemical tanker to Vietnamese maritime conglomerate Aulac. Different brokers have different…
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Unipec set to hand back ULCC to Euronav
Unipec is set to stop chartering the ULCC next month, Reuters reports. The giant tanker has been on charter to…
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MR chemical tankers among shipping’s ‘most unattractive sectors’, says Drewry
Macroeconomic uncertainty, diminishing demand and excess fleet capacity will bring down freight rates for MR chemical tankers over the medium…
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Shipping cycles and trick cycles
The editor asked for my thoughts on the idea that the ‘shipping cycle’ might become a thing of the past,…
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Jiangxi Tongda Shipping to list on NEEQ
Jiangxi Tongda Shipping, a chemical tanker operator on Yangtze River, has applied to list on China’s National Equities Exchange and…
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International Shipholding Corporation files for Chapter 11
The American shipowner International Shipholding Corporation has filed for relief under Chapter 11 at a court in New York. The…
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BW orders VLCC pair at DSME
Singapore’s BW Group has placed orders to build a pair of VLCCs at Korea’s Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME),…
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Libyan oil terminals set to reopen
Libya is finally set to recommence oil exports from long shuttered key terminals in the east of the war-torn country.…
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Capital Product Partners fixes two tankers to its sponsor
Capital Product Partners (CPP) has fixed two tankers to its sponsor company Capital Maritime & Trading Corp. The LR3 tanker Miltiadis M…
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NYK, MOL and K Line all revise downwards full year forecasts
Japan’s so called Big Three shipping lines have all revised downwards their full year forecasts today reflecting the continued dire…
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Super Eco Tankers: New investments and partnerships
Super Eco Tankers Management is one very few Greek shipping firms to still be ordering new tonnage. It chose to…
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