Tankers

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Tankers

January 17, 2019

Ocean Yield Buys Suezmax Tanker with Long-Term Charter

Ocean Yield has agreed to acquire a 2016-built Suezmax tanker with a 13-year bareboat charter to Okeanis Eco Tankers. (more…)

January 16, 2019

FSL Trust Suing TORM

FSL-25 and FSL-26, wholly-owned subsidiaries of the First Ship Lease Trust and respective owners of the LR2 Product Tankers “Torm Margrethe” (now renamed “FSL Piraeus”)...

January 15, 2019

Euronav Sells Suezmax Felicity For Offshore Project

Euronav announced it has sold the Suezmax vessel Felicity (2009 – 157,667 dwt) to a global supplier and operator of offshore floating platforms. (more…)

January 15, 2019

DSME clinches $365m order for four VLCCs

South Korean shipyard Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. (DSME) has clinched a 409.5 billion ($366 million) order to build four units of very large...

January 14, 2019

Tanker market in search of momentum as rates drop

VLCC: In the Middle East Gulf, the market came under renewed downward pressure, with 270,000mt to China fixed five points lower at WS 57. (more…)

January 11, 2019

Pistiolis orders MR tanker quartet at Hyundai Mipo Dockyard

According to reports, Evangelos Pistiolis – led Central Group has ordered four 50,000 dwt MR tanker newbuidlings at Hyundai Mipo Dockyard (HMD). (more…)

January 10, 2019

Crude exporters opt for VLCCs over traditional Aframax for USGC-UKC route

High rates in the Americas for Aframax vessels, which typically carry crude cargoes from the US Gulf Coast to Europe, have charterers looking toward larger...

January 10, 2019

Asia tanker markets may face unpredictability

For the Asian dirty and clean tanker markets, 2018 was a mixed bag that saw a fragile start but only to end on a fairly...

January 9, 2019

TEN Secures Charters for Product Tankers

Tsakos Energy Navigation has agreed charter contracts for two of its product tankers. (more…)

January 8, 2019

MOL acquires entire shares of Nordic Tankers from Triton

MOL Chemical Tankers and Nordic Tankers announced that Triton, the current sole shareholder of NT, agrees to sell and deliver 100% of shares of NT...

January 8, 2019

d’Amico Tankers Agrees Sale and Leaseback for New LR1 Tanker

d’Amico Tankers signed a memorandum of agreement and bareboat charter contract for its newbuilding LR1 vessel. (more…)

January 7, 2019

DHT Holdings announces relocation of the Co-CEOs to Singapore

DHT Holdings, Inc. announces that its Co-CEOs have relocated to Singapore. The relocation follows changes in the tax law in Norway from 2019 for tax...

January 3, 2019

Sovcomflot orders three LNG-fuelled tankers

On 28 December 2018, Sovcomflot (SCF Group) placed an order at Zvezda shipbuilding complex for construction of three new generation product carriers that use cleaner-burning...

December 28, 2018

NYK to Build its First Methanol-fueled Chemical Tanker with Green Loan

NYK will receive 2 billion yen from Taiyo Life Insurance Company as a green loan to exclusively finance the building of NYK’s first methanol-fueled chemical...