Tankers
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EGPN Bulk Carrier enters VLCC trades
EGPN Bulk Carrier, one of Chinas fastest-growing private owners, is reported entering the VLCC trades, with its third confirmed secondhand…
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Poten warns tanker owners on limited growth prospects for Chinese oil demand
Poten and Partners, one of the world’s most respected tanker brokers, has warned shipowners they can no longer take Chinese…
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Nigerian tanker player enters the VLCC trades
Nigeria’s Deep Frontline Shippers has emerged as the taker of the 17-year-old VLCC Starlight Venture, a ship reported sold by…
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Vitol orders asphalt carrier at Chengxi Shipyard
Commodity trading giant Vitol has placed an order at China State Shipbuilding Corp’s Chengxi Shipyard for up to two 37,000…
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Large swathe of the tanker fleet nearing retirement age
Around one in four tankers are approaching retirement age, something that could increase with impending new green regulations from the…
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Nylon tarps deployed in desperate bid to dodge sanctions
Tanker analysts are using satellite imagery to detect more and more desperate ships trying to disguise themselves from their sanctions-busting…
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MOL and Marubeni join forces to ship methanol from Russia
Japanese shipowner Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) and its compatriot Marubeni Corporation have reached an agreement in Russia to explore options…
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SFL snaps up suezmax trio
John Fredriksen’s SFL Corporation has struck a deal to acquire three 2019-built suezmax tankers in combination with long-term time charters…
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Folketrygdfondet increases stake in Frontline
Norwegian state pension fund Folketrygdfondet has recently acquired 100,000 shares in Frontline and with it passed the flag limit at…
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Landmark new Cosco LNG-fuelled VLCC heralds new supertanker era
China has given the world a glance of the world’s first LNG dual-fuelled VLCC with new data showing the swathe…
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ClarkSea Index enjoys its longest ever stretch of continuous month-on-month improvement
The ClarkSea Index has enjoyed its longest ever stretch of continuous month-on-month improvement, another sign of how this year’s bull-run…
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Long wait for tanker demand to return to pre-pandemic levels
Tanker owners, suffering one of their worst years in a decade, will have to wait until the end of next…
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Top Ships sells last non-scrubber fitted tanker
Top Ships has sold its last non-scrubber fitted vessel, the 2016-built MR2 product tanker , to unaffiliated third parties. The…
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Concordia Maritime buys back and offloads tanker pair
Stena-backed Concordia Maritime has sold two of its 2015-built IMOIIMAX tankers, Stena Image and Stena Important, to a Chinese leasing…
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Xihe VLCC sold
A quarter of Xihe Group’s VLCC arm has been sold with news of a third VLCC sale this year. Multiple…
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Hafnia grows fleet in joint ventures with Andromeda and CSSC Shipping
Oslo-listed product tanker unit of the BW Group, Hafnia, has grown its fleet through two joint ventures, adding a pair…
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FSL offloads chemical tanker
Singapore’s FSL Trust Management has sealed a deal to sell its 2006-built chemical tanker, . FSL did not reveal the…
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Africa’s richest man promises to shake up the tanker trades with giant new Nigerian refinery
A new massive refinery under construction in Nigeria is set to change the West African tanker trades with suezmaxes likely…
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Beijing demands tanker owners detail what they’re carrying onboard as they enter Chinese waters
Tanker owners coming near to China have more paperwork to complete. China is flexing its muscle in the South China…
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Nordic American Tankers secures another market-beating fixture
Herbjorn Hansson-led Nordic American Tankers (NAT) said it has fixed one of its ships to an undisclosed oil major, again…
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