Tankers

Scrubber investment helps spur DHT upgrade at JP Morgan

Higher rating comes despite bank expecting only a modest recovery in big tanker market.

Pantheon Tankers tipped to have sold veteran VLCC

Minoa Marine buys second panamax from Fukujin Kisen

Twelve-year-old panamax changes hands, lowering the average age of both the buyer’s and the seller’s fleet

More to come for AET after 'leap of faith' on LNG-fuelled tankers

Senior executives at the MISC Berhad-controlled tanker owner outline their future vision for LNG fuelling as the Eagle Bintulu and Eagle Brasilia are named at South Korea’s Samsung Heavy Industries

Integr8 fuel supply unit heading for higher profile

Bunkers arm of Navig8 group has seen little fanfare, but that may change with the IMO 2020 deadline and increased focus on fuel price and quality

P66 and Koch take more crude tankers on time charters

US refiners are still active in locking in tonnage after recent chartering spree

Vitol emerges as charterer of NAT newbuild

'2020 wild card' could buoy shipbuilding

Contracting levels are still low but, according to market analysts, shipbuilders could be about to benefit from environmental regulation

Japanese industrial giants reposition as orders dwindle

Publicly quoted outfits are focusing on their strengths and working with peers to compensate for their weakness

VLCCs next in line for US exports led rate spike

DNB Markets says drivers of last VLGC and LNG carrier up-cycles will soon arrive in big tanker market.

Giuseppe Bottiglieri poised to exit the tanker sector

Sale of four tankers expected to raise $30m for restructuring Italian shipowner

Norwegian royals see Seglem sign for China tankers

Contract signing among several events taking place during Norway-China Business Summit

Contaminated bunker unrelated to low sulphur fuel

IBIA report suggests there is no direct co-relation between low sulphur fuel oil blends and cases of bad bunkers impacting vessels this year.

US Gulf MR earnings jump on Latin American fuel demand

The TC14 benchmark hits a year-to-date high as vessel supply falls on healthy fuel imports of Latin American countries.