Tankers
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Burmese sailors set adrift in lifeboat
Marine rescuers in southern Vietnam on Thursday rescued five Burmese and four Indonesian sailors who had been attacked four days earlier by Indonesian pirates and left to drift at sea […]
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Gas tanker attempts first winter Arctic crossing
A large tanker carrying liquified natural gas (LNG) is set to become the first ship of its type to sail across the Arctic. The carrier, Ob River, left Norway in […]
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Cyclone Nilam: Missing Sailors
Rescue operations are under way in India’s southern city of Chennai to find five sailors missing from an oil tanker that ran aground in a cyclone. Coast guard helicopters and […]
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Double Tanker Hijacking
Two tankers have been hijacked in the Gulf of Guinea in the past four days as piracy off the West African coast continues to escalate. On Saturday the 73,400-dwt Orfeas […]
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Moscow Confirms Kidnapping
Russia’s Foreign Ministry has confirmed that 23 Russian citizens were on board the Energy Centurion, the Greek owned oil tanker hijacked off the coast of Togo Russia confirms 23 citizens on […]
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Cargoes to Resume
India, the third-biggest buyer of Iranian oil, will offer state-backed insurance to tankers, helping the nation’s biggest sea carrier to resume cargoes from the Persian Gulf nation hit by international […]
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Attack on Oil Tanker
Piracy off Nigeria’s oil-rich delta has escalated from low-level armed robberies to hijackings and cargo thefts, in the latest incident pirates have attacked an unidentified oil tanker. Pirates attack oil […]
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Changing Flags
In recent weeks, the National Iranian Tanker Company (NITC) has changed the names and flags of its fleet to try to avoid sanctions by the EU. Adopting flags of tax-haven […]
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Easy emergency access to oil tanks
These days, when a ship is in trouble, there is immediate attention focused upon to the risk of any oil pollution. Any report of a grounding or collision, even a […]
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Guns seized from tanker at Milford Haven
Three shotguns and ammunition have been seized from the crew of an an oil tanker which docked in Milford Haven. Officers from the Border Force boarded the Panamanian-registered ship for […]
