Tag: tankers

German authorities detained the oil tanker Eventin, which was stranded after losing power and running aground on 10 January.

In this week’s “Shipping Number of the Week” from BIMCO, Chief Shipping Analyst, Niels Rasmussen, looks at the current delivery schedule for product tankers which is expected to jump an impressive 256% this year compared with 2024.

On 12 January, Venezuelan authorities detained the "Four Plus," a Guyana-flagged tanker, for illegally entering Venezuelan waters without the necessary permits.

James Fisher and Sons has commissioned four tankers from China Merchants Jinling Shipyard (Yangzhou) Dingheng Co Ltd, featuring LNG dual-fuel propulsion systems.

OCIMF has issued an interim information paper to provide minimum functional requirements for the safe application of barge-based Emission Capture and Control (ECC) to oil, chemical and oil product tankers operating at onshore conventional berths, such as piers, jetties and quays.

Germany is working to secure the Russian oil tanker Eventin, which was stranded after losing power on 10 January off the northern coast of the island of Rügen in the Baltic Sea.

MPA Singapore was alerted to a distress call from a tanker on 12 January, reporting that it was taking in water.

A tanker reportedly carrying around 99,000 tons of oil drifted north of the island of Rügen in the Baltic Sea.

The Sanwa Maru, a tanker carrying petroleum products, ran aground off the coast of Cape Esan in Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan, at around 6 p.m. on January 6, 2025.

Russia declared a regional state of emergency on 4 January in Crimea following the oil spill in the Kerch Strait in the Black Sea.