Tankers News


Aalto Shipping Company Begins Operations

Mar 08, 2018

Aalto Shipping Company, a new Finnish shipping company, is starting operations. The shipping company is owned by Taaleri and its customers together with the acting management. Aalto Shipping Company has acquired to its fleet two modern…

GoodBulk Adds Another Capesize

Mar 06, 2018

GoodBulk an owner and operator of dry bulk vessels announced that it took delivery of the Aquasurfer, a 2013 built Capesize vessel of 178,854 dwt built by South Korean Sungdong. The purchase – which is the sixth to deliver of the seven…

Triyards Loses Shipbuilding Contract

Mar 01, 2018

Cash-strapped shipbuilder Triyards Holdings Limited has received a termination notice for a chemical tanker design and construction deal. The Singapore-based yard group said after Thursday trading hours that its subsidiary Saigon offshore…

Team Tankers Buys Two Tanker Carriers

Feb 28, 2018

Team Tankers International announced that it has entered into share purchase agreements to acquire all outstanding shares in each of Laurin Shipping and Anglo-Atlantic Steamship Company.  In combination with associated ship purchases, the…

Silver Lining for VLGC Shipowners: Drewry

Feb 28, 2018

A slowdown in fleet growth should begin the recovery cycle from the second half of 2018, although freight rates will not reach the levels seen during the bull run of 2014-15, according to the latest edition of the LPG Forecaster published by global shipping consultancy Drewry…

HSH Nordbank Sold to Buyout groups Cerberus, Flowers

Feb 28, 2018

Germany's HSH Nordbank, formerly the world's largest ship financier, is being sold to private equity firms as it emerges from crippling writedowns and state bailouts amid the deepest sector slump on record. The bank's state owners on Wednesday…

Nordic American Tankers Signs TC with Major Oil Firms

Feb 23, 2018

In the autumn of 2017, Nordic American Tankers (NAT) advised you of our time charter activities/contracts with oil companies such as Shell, BP, ExxonMobil and other major oil companies in the West and in the East.  The contract with ExxonMobil…

Hafnia Tankers Inks Fresh Sale and Leaseback Deal

Feb 16, 2018

Denmark-based shipping company Hafnia Tankers has successfully completed a sale and leaseback in the Japanese market through the sale and leaseback of its 2010 built LR1 tanker, MT Hafnia Australia.   The Vessel has been sold to a Japanese…

India's Oil Imports Reach Record High in January

Feb 15, 2018

India imported a record 4.93 million barrels of oil per day (bpd) in January to feed its expanded refining capacity and meet rising demand, ship tracking data obtained from sources and data compiled by Thomson Reuters Oil Research & Forecasts showed…

TEN Gets Charter Extension for Seven Panamaxes

Feb 14, 2018

Greece-based Tsakos Energy Navigation (TEN) has announced the charter extension for seven panamax tankers, for an average of 24 months, to a state oil concern.  The charters which all incorporate profit sharing provisions are expected to generate minimum gross revenues of over $70 million…

Dry Bulk, Container Markets Strengthened in 2017: Torvald Klaveness

Feb 12, 2018

The tanker market remained subdued, while the dry bulk and container markets strengthened during 2017, said Norwegian shipping company Torvald Klaveness. Torvald Klaveness managed to improve its financial results in 2017, but they “were still not at a satisfactory level”…

Ocean Yield Acquires Four VLCC

Feb 11, 2018

Ocean Yield has announced that 100% owned subsidiaries of the Company have agreed to acquire four VLCC crude tankers with 15-year bareboat charters to companies owned and guaranteed by Okeanis Marine Holdings.  All four vessels are sub…

Police Investigate 2016 Hydrogen Leak at Statoil Refinery

Feb 09, 2018

Norwegian police have launched an investigation into a hydrogen gas leak at Statoil's Mongstad refinery in October 2016, the company said on Friday.Statoil temporarily shut and evacuated its main refinery on Norway's west coast when a rusted pipe socket ruptured…

Hoegh LNG Signs FSRU Deal with Gas Natural Fenosa

Feb 07, 2018

Norway's Höegh LNG said on Wednesday that its floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) Höegh Giant has started its time charter contract with Spanish LNG operator Gas Natural Fenosa.  The  initial term of the contract is three years…

WFW Advises NYK on LNG Carrier Charter

Feb 07, 2018

Watson Farley Williams  (WFW) advised NYK Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha  (NYK) on the execution on 26 January 2018 of its long-term charter contract with EDF LNG Shipping, a subsidiary of the electricity major, Electricité de France (EDF).  The…

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