Tanker World Archives - Baird Maritime

April 1, 2020

China Shipbuilding Group delivers orange juice carrier to LDC

Written by Baird Maritime on April 1, 2020. Posted in Dry Cargo World, Tanker World.

China Shipbuilding Group (CSG), through subsidiary China Shipbuilding Chengxi Ship Repair, has delivered a new orange juice carrier to Netherlands-based Louis Dreyfus ..

March 25, 2020

Tanker crew foil pirate attack off Cameroon

Written by Baird Maritime on March 25, 2020. Posted in Piracy, Tanker World.

An oil/chemical tanker operated by Stena subsidiary Concordia Maritime was the target of a recent failed attack by pirates in the waters off Cameroon. The company ..

March 23, 2020

MAIB report enumerates causes of 2018 vessel collision off Gibraltar

Written by Baird Maritime on March 23, 2020. Posted in Boxship World, Gas Tanker World.

The UK Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) has released its investigation report into a collision between a containership and a gas carrier in waters off ..

April 1, 2020

Guangzhou Shipyard delivers 48,800DWT chemical tanker to FPMC

Written by Baird Maritime on April 1, 2020. Posted in Tanker World.

Guangzhou Shipyard International (GSI) delivered a newbuild chemical tanker to Taiwanese owner Formosa Plastics Marine Corporation (FPMC) on Wednesday, March 25. The ..

March 24, 2020

COLUMN | Seafarers – Last in the queue [Grey Power]

Written by Michael Grey on March 24, 2020. Posted in Ausmarine - Shipping and Offshore, Boxship World, Commercial Mariner - Ships & Ports, Dry Cargo World, Port World, Ship World Features, Ship World Vessel Reviews, Tanker World, Work Boat World, Work Boat World Features.

We are living in unprecedented times, in a situation where fear and uncertainty oscillate, even in the minds of practical people with heaps of common sense. And if is bad ..

March 22, 2020

Capital Ship Management tanker released from arrest in Singapore

Written by Baird Maritime on March 22, 2020. Posted in Tanker World.

Athens-based Capital Ship Management Corporation has confirmed that the crude oil tanker Andronikos (ex-Anbar) was promptly released from arrest in Singapore after the ..

March 31, 2020

Stena Bulk to conduct at-sea biofuel tests

Written by Baird Maritime on March 31, 2020. Posted in Tanker World.

Stena Bulk is set to conduct tests of a vessel running on 100 per cent biofuel in the coming weeks. The biofuel has been bunkered on the MR tanker Stena Immortal and will ..

March 23, 2020

Singaporean shipping company fined US$1.65 million for concealing illegal discharges of oily water

Written by Baird Maritime on March 23, 2020. Posted in Commercial Mariner - Marine Projects, Commercial Mariner - Ships & Ports, Pollution/Rubbish Cleanup, Tanker World.

Unix Line, a Singapore-based shipping company, was sentenced in US federal court in Oakland, California, on Friday, March 20, after previously pleading guilty to a ..

March 19, 2020

COLUMN | Offshore in quarantine: $25 oil takes us back to 2003 [Offshore Accounts]

Written by Hieronymus Bosch on March 19, 2020. Posted in Ausmarine - Shipping and Offshore, Commercial Mariner - Offshore, Commercial Mariner - Ships & Ports, Offshore World, Ship World Features, Ship World Vessel Reviews, Tanker World, Work Boat World Features, Work Boat World Vessel Reviews.

There is an apocryphal tale that when the French Enlightenment philosopher and lottery scam-artist Voltaire was asked on his deathbed by a priest to renounce Satan and ..