tankers

PARIS, May 26 (Reuters) – Nearly two dozen vessels were queued outside the French oil import terminal in Fos, southern France on Thursday, held up by a

By Firat Kayakiran (Bloomberg) — Tanker owners hauling the world’s crude were among the few big winners from an oil-price crash that started in

By Bate Felix and Amanda Cooper PARIS/LONDON, May 24 (Reuters) – Strikes by French oil sector workers protesting proposed labour reforms spread to all

By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS, May 12 (Reuters) – The United Nations Security Council on Thursday removed from a U.N. blacklist an Indian-flagged

General Dynamics NASSCO has launched and christened the MT Garden State, the third of five ECO Class tankers to join the Jones Act fleet. Once delivered, the

The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) strongly criticized the judgement of the Spanish Supreme Court in the ‘Prestige’ Case during a

A Russian oil tanker caught fire in the Caspian Sea on Saturday killing one crew member. The Ministry of Emergency Situations in Azerbaijan confirmed the

By Josh Wingrove and Jeremy van Loon (Bloomberg) — Enbridge Inc.’s Northern Gateway pipeline may get a new lease on life as the Canadian government

By Jonathan Saul and Parisa Hafezi LONDON, April 19 (Reuters) – Iran faces a struggle to increase oil exports because many of its tankers are tied up

Maersk Tankers on Friday christened two more medium range newbuilds at the Sungdong Shipyard in Tongyong, South Korea as part of the company’s fleet

By Libby George and Keith Wallis LONDON/SINGAPORE, April 7 (Reuters) – A surge in oil buying by China’s newest crude importers has created delays

HOUSTON, April 6 (Reuters) – Venezuela’s PDVSA will discharge in the coming days its first cargo of U.S. crude bought from British BP, who along

By Keith Wallis SINGAPORE, April 6 (Reuters) – A traffic jam of nearly 30 large oil tankers has built up outside the Iraqi port of Basra due to loading

DUBAI, April 2 (Reuters) – Iran is seeking $2.5 billion investment to modernise its oil tankers fleet following the lifting of sanctions against Tehran,

By Keith Wallis SINGAPORE, April 1 (Reuters) – Freight rates for very large crude carriers (VLCCs), which hit a two-week high on Thursday, face an

At least two people were killed in what has been described as a large explosion aboard an inland tanker berthed in Duisburg, Germany. Local media reports says

Oil giant BP decided to take the last Aussie-crewed fuel tanker, the MT British Fidelity, off the Australian coast. The vessel, currently in Singapore, was

By Javier Blas (Bloomberg) — The Monte Toledo oil tanker covered the uneventful voyage from Iran to Europe with a haul of 1 million barrels of crude in

By Keith Wallis SINGAPORE, Feb 19 (Reuters) – Freight rates in Asian trades for very large crude carriers (VLCCs) are set to hold steady around current

By Javier Blas (Bloomberg) — The world is so awash with crude, the boss of BP Plc said people will be filling their “swimming pools” with it by the