Shipping TV’s Chris Gosling takes his camera aboard the tug Svitzer Shotley as the tug goes bow to bow with the mighty Maersk Edinburgh – 243 tonnes of tug vs the 141,716 tonne container giant. Part 1 above shows hook-up and swing.
In Part 2 of the video below, you see the berthing of Maersk Edinburgh, along with a look at Svitzer Shotley’s engineroom. Finally, Svitzer Shotley is shown taking position astern of MSC Athos, to lift her off the quayside as she sails for Suez.
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The EU will propose to G7 finance ministers this week to lower the current $60 per barrel price cap on Russian seaborne oil as part of the new sanctions package against Moscow, European Economic Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis said on Monday.
The prospect of a deal over Iran’s nuclear program saw oil fall sharply on Thursday. The reality is that Tehran has relatively little extra crude that it can bring back — but it could arrive in a market that’s gearing up for surplus.
Estonia said on Thursday that Moscow had briefly sent a fighter jet into NATO airspace over the Baltic Sea during an attempt to stop a Russian-bound oil tanker thought to be part of a "shadow fleet" defying Western sanctions on Moscow.
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