With flags and confetti, Venezuela launched three new oil tankers in the last 14 months that exemplify the socialist country’s ambitions to diversify exports to Asian markets and give a helping...
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19 Dec 2003
In a world criss-crossed by seaborne trade, decisions in one region can have serious repercussions for others. The current voyage of the Russian tanker Geroi Sevastopolya, from Europe to Asia, is...
11:04PM
11 May 2001
The cost of shipping oil and petroleum products could fall sharply next year because a timetable settled last week for eliminating single-hulled tankers is not as stringent as tanker owners had...
8:21PM
15 Jan 1999
Anglo-Eastern Ship Management is considering the mainland, among others, as a new source of crew supply.
2:39PM
18 Nov 1998
Concordia Maritime claims it has saved millions of dollars by investing in S2000 V-Max, an industrial niche-market ship that offers low transport costs and high safety to its clients.
9:08AM
2 Feb 1998
Swedish tanker group ICB Shipping says it has exercised its option through a subsidiary to buy the VLCC (very large crude carrier) Flores.
9:35PM
Japan's export shipbuilding orders in May more than tripled from a year earlier to 1,193,250 gross tonnes, an industry group says.
The figure compared with orders totalling 348,550...
10:49PM
An oil company association has accused classification societies of undermining the International Maritime Organisation's (IMO) ship-quality assurance scheme by backing a rival programme.
2:03PM
Newport News Shipbuilding is to buy the first newbuild double-hull ship built in a United States shipyard that meets the requirements of the US Oil Pollution Act of 1990, which requires that by...
10:58AM
NINETEEN crew members from a Chinese cargo ship were rescued when their vessel collided with a small tanker off the southeast coast of the territory.
3:12AM
SIX men were thrown into the sea early yesterday when their wooden boat, carrying sand, and a Chinese oil tanker collided off Tap Shek Kok, Tuen Mun. Some swan ashore and the others were rescued...
6:12PM
The Braer incident in 1993 (above) caused a large-scale oil spill, but emissions resulting from ship operations cause greater environmental damage. Det Norske Veritas is in the process of...
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