Maersk Tankers and Mitsui order mega ammonia carriers
With Japanese trading house Mitsui & Co. as its co-investor in the first four ships, Maersk Tankers has ordered up to ten 93,000 cubic meter capacity very large ammonia carriers (VLACs) at
With Japanese trading house Mitsui & Co. as its co-investor in the first four ships, Maersk Tankers has ordered up to ten 93,000 cubic meter capacity very large ammonia carriers (VLACs) at
Charlie Grey, CEO of Tankers International, leads the world’s largest VLCC pool. In this exclusive Marine Log Q&A, Grey answers questions on hot topics in the global shipping industry, from the outlook
The thermal runaway of a cell within a handheld radio’s lithium-ion battery led to a fire on the 106,000 dwt Liberian-flagged oil tanker S-Trust last year that resulted in $3 million in
By John Helmer In the war at sea between the U.S.-NATO alliance and Russia, the Russian shipping company Sovcomflot says its future has never been better. The U.S. State Department directing the
The U.S. Navy’s Military Sealift Command has awarded Crowley Government Services Inc. and Seabulk Tankers Inc. time charter contracts worth more than $25.3 million for three tankers reflagged to U.S.-flag for MARAD’s
Metairie, La., headquartered Maritime Partners LLC is getting into the Jones Act tanker market, big time. Best known as the largest lessor of U.S. inland waterways towboats, it is getting into the
Bergen, Norway, headquartered Odfjell is to install a bound4blue eSAIL suction sail system on a chemical tanker — a first for the bound4blue technology in the tanker sector. Odfjell has been actively
New York City headquartered tanker giant International Seaways Inc. (NYSE: INSW) has entered into contracts to build two, scrubber-fitted, dual-fuel (LNG) ready, LR1 vessels in Korea at K Shipbuilding Co, Ltd. The
A salvage team yesterday recovered the body of a crew member from a Suez Canal tugboat that sank after a fatal collision with a gas tanker transiting the canal. The incident occurred
Ukraine has followed up on its drone strike on a Russian Navy warship with a drone strike, Saturday, on a sanctioned Russian tanker, the Sig. Interfax Ukraine quotes sources in the Security