The Great Eastern Shipping Co Ltd. (G E Shipping) has signed a contract to sell “Jag Leela”, an Aframax crude carrier. The 1999 built vessel of about 105,000 dwt will be delivered to the buyers in Q1FY14. The Company’s current fleet stands at 31 vessels, comprising 22 tankers (9 crude carriers, 12 product carriers, 1 [...]
Gulf Energy Maritime (GEM) continues to expand its fleet to better serve its regional and international customers with the delivery of Gulf Valour, its second Aframax vessel. After two months since the delivery of Gulf Vision, their first Aframax vessel, GEM received Gulf Valour, which was also built by Samsung Heavy Industries. Standard Chartered arranged [...]
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New Century Shipbuilding (NCS) has delivered, three weeks ahead of schedule, an Aframax type Crude Oil Carrier with capacity of 85,000 DWT to the Indonesian owner Pertamina. The contract for construction of GAMKONORA was signed on 24 December 2010 with the total investment of US$ 52.8 million. The construction process of the ship has gone [...]
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Wärtsilä, the marine industry’s leading solutions and services provider, has launched a new, highly efficient Aframax tanker design that offers solutions for current and forthcoming emissions legislation. Wärtsilä Ship Design has developed a double hull, single screw crude oil tanker featuring a CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) optimised hull to provide less resistance with higher propulsion [...]
Tsakos Energy Navigation Limited on Friday announced a two-year time charter extension for the 2008 built, 105,392 dwt, double hull aframax tanker, Nippon Princess, with the same charterer, a state oil company. The new charter commenced in July 2012. The gross revenues from the extension of this charter are expected to be approximately $14.5 million [...]
On Monday, July 23 Iran-based SADRA Ship Manufacturing Yard will launch the biggest indigenously built tanker, managing director of the company, Engineer Salman Zarbi told the press. The 113,000 dwt Aframax oil tanker will first cast off for three months long sea trials into the waters of the Persian Gulf, before it is handed over [...]
Aker Philadelphia Shipyard, Inc. (APSI), the sole operating subsidiary of Aker Philadelphia Shipyard ASA, began production activities today on the first of two Aframax tankers that it will build for SeaRiver Maritime, Inc. (SeaRiver), Exxon Mobil Corporation’s U.S. marine affiliate. When completed in 2014, the vessels will be 820 feet long and be capable of [...]
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![Iran to Deliver Aframax Ships to Venezuela on Time]()
The Managing Director of Iran’s Marine Industrial Company (SADRA) Mehdi E’tesam said Wednesday locally made Aframax… (ISNA) Source: ISNA, November 9, 2011;
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Eagle Texas, the 61st Aframax to be delivered into AET’s rapidly growing fleet, will be the company’s second tanker to take up duties as a modular capture vessel (MCV). AET was recently awarded a 20-year contract with Marine Well Containment Company (MWCC) to supply two MCVs to provide hydrocarbon capture and containment services for [...]
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![USA: Aker Philadelphia Shipyard Signs LOI for Construction of Two Aframax Tankers]()
Aker Philadelphia Shipyard ASA announced today that its sole operating subsidiary, Aker Philadelphia Shipyard, Inc. (APSI), has signed a Letter of Intent with SeaRiver Maritime, Inc. (SeaRiver), Exxon Mobil Corporation’s U.S. marine affiliate, for the construction of two aframax tankers. The 820 foot long, 115,000 deadweight ton tankers are intended to be used to transport [...]
