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Elisabeth Braw: The Undersea War

Elisabeth Braw: The Undersea War

A ship’s anchor can wreak havoc on the world’s undersea infrastructure, something that has provided plenty of rich material for Splash reporting in recent years. For Elisabeth Braw, the Cook Islands-flagged tanker Eagle S provides one of the most brazen examples. On Christmas Day 2024, the vessel was accused of dragging its anchor 90 km …

Helena Marsh

ASIA-USCONTAINERRATESTRADE FLOW INSIGHT

Asia-US container rates rise, tanker rates ex-USG soften as Asia port congestion intensifies

Rates for shipping containers from east Asia and China to the US were mostly higher this week while rates for liquid chemical tankers ex-US Gulf were mostly softer, all while schedule reliability is decreasing because of congestion at Asia ports. PORT CONGESTION Global container vessel schedule reliability dropped to 56.4% in July 2026, a decline ...

Helena Marsh

Sea Pioneer emerges behind SK Oceanplant aframax haul

Sea Pioneer emerges behind SK Oceanplant aframax haul

Greek owner Sea Pioneer Shipping has emerged as the company behind SK Oceanplant’s recently announced series of six firm plus two optional aframax tankers. Market sources have identified the Vasilis Bacolitsas-led owner as the previously unnamed Greek customer behind six 115,000 dwt crude carriers at the South Korean yard, with two further options attached. SK …

Helena Marsh

FOURSHIPOWNERSCO-ORDERTRADE FLOW INSIGHT

Four shipowners co-order vessels in record-breaking VINGA series: “The right time to invest”

Four shipping companies from Sweden, Norway, and Canada see a bright future in the European intermediate tanker market and are ordering four new VINGA ships — taking the series, developed by Furetank, to a remarkable 26 vessels. The new investment was announced on Friday in conjunction with the naming ceremony for FURE VASA, a newly ...

Helena Marsh

Houthi strike hits Saudi VLCC off Yanbu

Houthi strike hits Saudi VLCC off Yanbu

A Saudi-owned VLCC has been struck off Yanbu in the northern Red Sea, extending the Houthi campaign against Saudi shipping to one of the kingdom’s most important alternative crude export routes. The 320,926 dwt Amzan was hit around 63 nautical miles west of Yanbu on August 24. UK Maritime Trade Operations said an unknown projectile …

Editorial Desk

Satellite Images Show Seven Tankers Loading Iraqi Crude at Once

Satellite Images Show Seven Tankers Loading Iraqi Crude at Once

Seven crude carriers were moored at Iraq’s Persian Gulf export facilities on August 24—a sharp increase from recent weeks. The carriers had a combined carrying capacity of roughly 13 million barrels, according to satellite imagery analyzed by Bloomberg. TankerTrackers.com separately said it counted and identified 13 million barrels loading Monday at Iraq’s Al Basrah Oil Terminal. That is a dramatic departure from the past several weeks, when satellite passes typically showed just one or two tankers at Iraq’s offshore export…

Editorial Desk

In-Depth Suezmax Study Makes Capex Case For T-Boss® Sterntubeless Shaftline System

In-Depth Suezmax Study Makes Capex Case For T-Boss® Sterntubeless Shaftline System

An in-depth evaluation study based on reference data from a Suezmax crude oil tanker has demonstrated the benefits of using Thordon Bearings’ innovative T-BOSS® shaftline solution instead of a conventional oil lubricated sterntube system. The comprehensive study assessed the CAPEX for a sterntubeless T-BOSS® (Thordon – Blue Ocean Stern Space) system installed on a 274m ...

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