Aframax Tankers

Sumitomo Heavy Industries Marine & Engineering (SHI-ME) selects state-of-the-art structural monitoring systems for two AFRAMAX tankers

Sumitomo Heavy Industries Marine & Engineering (SHI-ME) selects state-of-the-art structural monitoring systems for two AFRAMAX tankers

Unique fiber optic measurement technology specified for hull stress and fatigue early warning system, and long-term design verification

Oslo, Norway: Light Structures AS, the world leading supplier of fiber optic condition monitoring systems for maritime applications, and Japanese shipbuilder SHI-ME have entered into an agreement for delivery of comprehensive hull...

https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2021/10/25/sumitomo-heavy-industries-marine-engineering-shi-me-selects-state-of-the-art-structural-monitoring-systems-for-two-aframax-tankers/

DNV awards first merchant vessel SILENT-E notation

DNV awards first merchant vessel SILENT-E notation

The ONEX Peace. Photo courtesy: HSHI

South Korea, Mokpo, 22 April 2021: ONEX Peace, an Aframax tanker built by Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries and delivered to its owner ONEX, has become the world’s first merchant ship to receive DNV’s SILENT-E notation. DNV is the first classification society to offer an underwater noise notation.

The SILENT-E notation ensures ships do not exceed average-to-moderate Underwater Radiation Noise (URN) levels. Vessels...

https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2021/04/22/dnv-awards-first-merchant-vessel-silent-e-notation/

Gagarin Prospect completes first ever LNG Aframax tanker fuelling in USA

Gagarin Prospect completes first ever LNG Aframax tanker fuelling in USA

Gagarin Prospect bunkering at Port Canaveral

On 15 March 2021 Sovcomflot and Shell broke new ground, with the completion of the first ever Aframax tanker fuelling using LNG in the USA.

Sovcomflot’s Gagarin Prospect, on long-term charter to Shell, was en-route from Corpus Christi to Europe.  She received 1,075 cubic metres of marine LNG from the Shell NA LNG LLC chartered Q-LNG 4000 outside the Port of Canaveral, Florida. This...

https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2021/03/19/gagarin-prospect-completes-first-ever-lng-aframax-tanker-fuelling-in-usa/

Performance Shipping Inc. Announces Filing of 2020 Annual Report on Form 20-F

Performance Shipping Inc. Announces Filing of 2020 Annual Report on Form 20-F

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ATHENS, GREECE, March 5, 2021 – Performance Shipping Inc. (NASDAQ: PSHG), (the “Company”), a global shipping company specializing in the ownership of tankers, today announced that it has filed its 2020 Annual Report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2020, with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The Annual Report on Form 20-F, which contains the Company’s audited consolidated financial...

https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2021/03/05/performance-shipping-inc-announces-filing-of-2020-annual-report-on-form-20-f/

Performance Shipping Inc. Announces Agreement to Acquire Fifth Aframax Tanker

Performance Shipping Inc. Announces Agreement to Acquire Fifth Aframax Tanker

ATHENS, GREECE, November 11, 2020 – Performance Shipping Inc. (NASDAQ: PSHG), (the “Company”), a global shipping company specializing in the ownership of tankers, today announced that it has signed, through a separate wholly-owned subsidiary, a Memorandum of Agreement to purchase the M/T Kalamas, a 105,400 dwt Aframax tanker vessel built in 2011 by Sumitomo Heavy Industries Marine & Engineering Co. Ltd, Japan, from an...

https://www.allaboutshipping.co.uk/2020/11/11/performance-shipping-inc-announces-agreement-to-acquire-fifth-aframax-tanker/

SCF marks the first year of operating LNG-fuelled oil tankers

Igor Tonkovidov

SCF marks the first year of operating LNG-fuelled oil tankers

Since taking delivery of the first of its ‘Green Funnel’ LNG-fuelled Aframax crude oil tankers a year ago, in July 2018, PAO Sovcomflot (SCF Group) has accumulated data showing that using LNG as a primary fuel for these large-capacity tankers enabled a 30 per cent reduction of CO2 emissions compared with similar vessels powered by traditional heavy fuel. This reduction exceeds the original design target values.

Igor...

http://www.allaboutshipping.co.uk/2019/07/09/scf-marks-the-first-year-of-operating-lng-fuelled-oil-tankers/

Performance Shipping Inc., announces agreements to acquire two Aframax Tankes and US$ 10.0 million investment by its chairman

Performance Shipping Inc., announces agreements to acquire two Aframax Tankes and US$ 10.0 million investment by its chairman    

ATHENS, GREECE, June 11, 2019 – Performance Shipping Inc. (NASDAQ:DCIX), (the “Company”), today announced that it has agreed to acquire two entities, which have signed contracts to purchase two 2011-built Aframax tanker vessels from an unaffiliated third party seller for a total purchase price of US$60.0 million. The transaction was unanimously approved by the...

http://www.allaboutshipping.co.uk/2019/06/11/performance-shipping-inc-announces-agreements-to-acquire-two-aframax-tankes-and-us-10-0-million-investment-by-its-chairman/

Gagarin Prospect named Ship of the Year

Igor Tonkovidov

Gagarin Prospect named Ship of the Year

Gagarin Prospect, the world’s first LNG-fuelled Aframax crude oil tanker which is owned and operated by Sovcomflot (SCF Group), has been awarded ‘Ship of the Year’ at the 2019 Marine Propulsion Awards. The award ceremony was held in Amsterdam in May at the Sulphur Cap 2020 Conference.

Delivered in 2018, the tanker is the lead ship in Sovcomflot’s ‘Green Funnel’ series of 114,000-dwt Aframax tankers designed to use cleaner-burning LNG as their...

http://www.allaboutshipping.co.uk/2019/05/14/gagarin-prospect-named-ship-of-the-year/

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