Tag: tankers

The LNG tanker 'Grand Elena' hit a berth at Russia’s Sakhalin Energy project, carrying 145,000 cubic metres of LNG. The accident took place on November 27 and it is not clear when the ship will leave the port. The production was not affected, while an investigation into the in incident is ongoing.

Capital Product Partners and DSS Holdings entered into a transaction agreement. According to the agreement Capital will spin off its crude and product tanker business into a separate company, which will merge with DSS’ businesses and operations. The new company will be called Diamond S Shipping Inc.

The continued austerity of the tanker market conditions led owners to dig deep into the oversupply of capacity, with BIMCO expecting the tanker fleet to keep growing. However, a short-term rate recovery is not expected, because of the refining industry's maintenance season.

Six Greenpeace activists boarded Stolt Tenacity for protest purposes, a giant tanker owned by Stolt Tankers, while the vessel was underway off the west coast of Spain, in the Gulf of Cadiz, on November 17. According to Greenpeace, the captain had already been informed via VHF radio for the protest.

Odfjell reported its results for Q3 2018, which as the company said, reflect a stable chemical tanker market, despite the fact that the market remained depressed during the quarter. Currently, the global core chemical tanker orderbook remains at 8% of the current fleet.

On November 3, two suspicious skiffs attempted piracy attack to a Chemical Tanker as the vessel was making northbound passage through the Red Sea west of Yemen. After warning hand flares were fired, the skiffs ceased approach and passed by the stern.

A collision incident between two tankers and a container ship took place in Kaohsiung port on Saturday, October 3 morning. The 6,500 dwt chemical tanker Der Yun was moving to another and collided with the small tanker Kin Shing. After this collision, Kin Shing accidentally hit the container ship Setsu Maru.

On 22 October 2018, Sovcomflot's crude oil tanker 'Gagarin Prospect', which runs on LNG, completed its voyage across the Baltic and North Seas from Primorsk to Rotterdam. The ship delivered 104,815 tonnes of crude oil. 'Gagarin Prospect' is the world’s first Aframax crude oil tanker designed to operate on LNG.

Gadani shipbreaking beach recently experienced two fire incidents. On 11 October a tanker caught fire, with no injuries reported. However, on 14 October, another oil tanker caught fire, injuring seven workers. These incidents made the Balochistan Environmental Protection Agency ban all shipbreaking activities in Gadani.

Seven workers sustained severe burn injuries after a non-functional ship caught fire in Gadani ship-breaking yard, Pakistan, on Sunday. Three of the inured men are considered to be in critical situation. The incident took place while cutting steel inside the oil tanker.