Tanker World Archives - Baird Maritime

January 17, 2020

Capital Ship Management takes delivery of 115,000DWT crude carrier

Written by Baird Maritime on January 17, 2020. Posted in Tanker World.

Athens-based Capital Ship Management Corporation recently took delivery of a newbuild crude oil carrier from South Korea’s Daehan Shipbuilding. The crude carrier, ..

January 15, 2020

MOL christens gas carrier LNG Merak

Written by Baird Maritime on January 15, 2020. Posted in Gas Tanker World.

Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) and China COSCO Shipping Corporation have christened a new LNG carrier being built at Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding. LNG Merak is the second of a ..

January 8, 2020

Tanker owner, operator, chief engineer convicted in US for concealing deliberate pollution

Written by Baird Maritime on January 8, 2020. Posted in Commercial Mariner - Marine Projects, Non-Naval (Maritime Security), Pollution/Rubbish Cleanup, Tanker World.

Nikolaos Vastardis, Evridiki Navigation, and Liquimar Tankers Management Services have been convicted by a federal jury in Wilmington, Delaware, of violating the Act to ..

January 16, 2020

Kawasaki delivers newbuild LPG carrier to Phoenix Tankers

Written by Baird Maritime on January 16, 2020. Posted in Gas Tanker World.

Kawasaki Heavy Industries handed over a newbuild 53,928DWT LPG carrier to Phoenix Tankers of Singapore on Thursday, January 16. Phoenix Gaia has an LOA of 229.9 metres, a ..

January 14, 2020

DSME launches new gas carrier for Flex LNG

Written by Baird Maritime on January 14, 2020. Posted in Gas Tanker World.

Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME) has launched Flex Resolute, a new gas carrier ordered by Flex LNG. The vessel is scheduled to be delivered to its new ..

January 8, 2020

COLUMN | New year predictions – the future of the salvage industry [Tug Times]

Written by Alan Loynd on January 8, 2020. Posted in Ausmarine - Shipping and Offshore, Boxship World, Commercial Mariner - Tugs & Towage, Dry Cargo World, Port World, Salvage Operations, Ship World Features, Tanker World, Work Boat World Features.

Stephen Fry wrote that, “if a columnist has a single solemn duty, it is to make predictions for the New Year.” Well, I am sorry Mr. Fry, but I am well aware of the ..

January 16, 2020

One dead, two missing after tanker collides with fishing boat in Galveston, Texas

Written by Baird Maritime on January 16, 2020. Posted in Commercial Mariner - Fishing & Aquaculture, Commercial Mariner - Marine Projects, Commercial Mariner - Maritime Security, Fishing Boat World, Non-Naval (Maritime Security), Search and Rescue, Tanker World.

A collision between a chemical tanker and a fishing vessel in heavy fog in the waters of Galveston Bay, Texas, has left one person dead while another two have gone ..

January 8, 2020

OSG to purchase, time charter vessels

Written by Baird Maritime on January 8, 2020. Posted in Commercial Mariner - Ships & Ports, Tanker World.

Overseas Shipholding Group (OSG), through its subsidiaries, has entered into agreements with BP Oil Shipping Company USA and BP AMI Leasing to purchase two US-flagged ..

January 5, 2020

COLUMN | Something fishy at James Fisher? [Offshore Accounts]

Written by Hieronymus Bosch on January 5, 2020. Posted in Offshore Renewables, Offshore World, Salvage Operations, Search and Rescue, Ship World Features, Tanker World, Work Boat World Features.

James Fisher and Sons is one of the few great British successes in the maritime industry, with a market capitalisation of over one billion pounds (US$1.3 billion) at the ..