Tankers
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Athenian Holdings appoints Jens Martin Jensen as CEO
The Kyriakou family’s Athenian Holdings has appointed Jens Martin Jensen as chief executive officer. Jensen moves from Wes Eden’s New…
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Newbuild VLCCs commanding ‘hefty’ $10,000 premium
The scarcity of newbuild tankers this year combined with a widely predicted growing demand for floating oil storage is seeing…
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Sri Lanka to prosecute captain of burnt VLCC
Sri Lanka will seek at least RS340m ($1.9m) from the owner of the stricken VLCC for assistance given to the…
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Weekly Broker: Activity across the board
The S&P market has experienced a fruitful week across all sectors with substantial volumes of vessels changing hands. “With regards…
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Sovcomflot closes in on $500m Moscow IPO
Sovocmflot, Russia’s largest shipowner, has floated the idea of listing on the Moscow Exchange again. The state-run company has long…
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Hafnia bets on methanol
Hafina, the Michael Skov-led product tanker arm of the BW Group, is investing in a methanol production facility. Hafnia has…
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Burnt New Diamond VLCC patched up
The hole in one of the bunker compartments of the burnt out VLCC has been plugged, a deballasting operation concluded,…
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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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