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April 2, 2024 No Responses

Chevron Charters First Electric Tanker For Maritime Customers

Chevron is chartering its first hybrid electric bunker tanker, a vessel that fuels other ships, from V-Bunkers, the Singaporean bunker arm of energy and commodities company Vitol. According to Chevron, the tanker, owned and operated by V-bunkers, arrived at Singapore...

January 27, 2024 No Responses

Oil Tanker On Fire After Attack

An oil tanker is on fire in the Gulf of Aden, its operator says, after Houthis said they hit it with a missile. The movement said it had targeted the Marlin Luanda on Friday evening. Operator Trafigura told the BBC...

May 29, 2023 No Responses

Oil Theft: Nigeria Releases Seized Norwegian Oil Tanker

The Nigerian Navy on Sunday returned a Norwegian-registered vessel, MT Heroic Idun, caught attempting to steal Nigeria’s crude oil in August 2022. The navy arrested the oil tanker and its 26 Indian, Pilipino, Sri Lankan and Polish nationals in August...

September 4, 2022 No Responses

FRSC Tasks Tanker Owners On Safety Valves

The Ogun State sector command of Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has advised tanker owners to install safety valves and adhere to simple traffic regulations to avoid preventable mishaps on the highways. The Sector Commander, Mr Ahmed Umar, ga...

September 2, 2022 No Responses

Tanker Refloated After Blocking Suez Canal

The Suez Canal was blocked for several hours after an oil tanker got stranded in the single-lane stretch of the canal — nearly the same spot where the Ever Given containership remained stuck for days in March 2021. On late...

October 22, 2021 No Responses

Another Shell’s Tanker Joins Signal Maritime Pool

Signal Maritime, the Signal Group’s shipping arm, has taken commercial management of MT Silver London, the new Shell’s medium-range (MR) tanker, increasing the pool’s fleet size to 15. The addition of the energy major’s tonnage as well ...

August 27, 2021 No Responses

Tanker Crew Arrested Over Crude Oil Theft

The captain and 18 crew members of oil tanker, MT Strovolos have been detained by the Indonesian Navy on suspicion of stealing nearly 300,000 barrels of crude oil. According to World Maritime News, the Bahamas-flagged tanker was seized by the...

March 9, 2021 No Responses

All-Women Crew Tanker Makes History

Union Minister Mansukh Mandaviya flagged off the vessel from JNPT Liquid Berth Jetty in a virtual ceremony held on Saturday, March 6, 2021. “SCI has been a pioneer in employing women seafarers onboard its vessels and has implemented various initiat...

February 7, 2021 No Responses

Maersk Tankers Signs Sea Cargo Charter

Maersk Tankers has become a signatory of the Sea Cargo Charter, a global framework that establishes a common baseline for global traders to report on CO2 emission reductions of their shipping activities. The Sea Cargo Charter is consistent with the...

January 3, 2021 No Responses

FRSC Boss Lauds Minister For Prompt Evacuation Of Fallen Tanker

The Corps Marshal of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Boboye Oyeyemi, has commended the Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, for aiding the speedy removal of a fallen tanker on the Lagos-Ibadan expressway. Oyeyemi praised the minister in...

July 1, 2020 No Responses

LNG Tanker Collides With Car Carrier

A brand new LNG vessel owned by TMS Cardiff Gas has collided with Cido Shipping’s car carrier offshore Belgium’s Oostende. The 174,000-cbm Amberjack LNG and Grand Venus were in a “minor” collision on June 28 some 25 kilometers offshore the...

January 16, 2020 No Responses

Firm Receives 1st LNG-Powered Tanker

Marine Vicky, Singapore’s first LNG-fueled bunker tanker, has been delivered to its owner, Sinanju Tankers Holdings.The 8,000 dwt newbuild, which was named in September 2019, was built at Keppel Nantong Shipyard in China. Featuring a length of 102.8 meters a...

December 26, 2019 No Responses

Tanker Thwarts Pirate Attack In Nigeria

Turkish Suezmax tanker Istanbul on Tuesday December 24, 2019 foiled a pirate attack while sailing some 180 nautical miles southwest of Brass, Nigeria. The ship was approached by a high-speed craft with 9 armed men aboard trying to board the...

August 21, 2019 No Responses

Shell Seals Deal On 14 New LNG-Fueled Tankers

As part of its measures to decarbonise shipping, Oil and gas major, Shell has reached agreements to charter a fleet of up to fourteen new liquefied natural gas-fueled crude oil and products tankers, Namely, Shell Tankers (Singapore) agreed a long-term...