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Ship gouged 3km channel in reef: scientist
The Chinese coal ship Shen Neng 1 lies stranded and leaking oil on Douglas Shoals in the Great Barrier Reef after running aground on Saturday. Photo: AFP
The bulk coal carrier that ran aground on the Great Barrier Reef has pulverised a large section of a protected shoal that could take up to 20 years to [...]
China’s Supertanker Completed in Guangdong
China’s largest self-developed supertanker named Xinpuyang was completed in Nansha port of Guangdong province.
China’s largest self-developed supertanker was completed in south China’s Guangdong Province and has already set sail. The 333-meter-long and 60-meter-wide oil tanker, named Xinpuyang, was designed and built by the Guangzhou Longxue Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. and the Marine Design and Research Institute [...]
Pirates release supertanker
SOMALI pirates have freed the Greek supertanker VLCC Maran Centaurus, one of the largest ships ever hijacked, after a plane dropped at least $US5 million ($5.43 million) in ransom on the deck.
The ransom, also one of the largest ever paid, sparked a deadly feud within the group of pirates delaying the release of the ship [...]
Pirates Hijack Oil Super Tanker Headed for U.S.
NAIROBI, Kenya. Somali pirates seized a tanker carrying crude oil from Saudi Arabia to the United States in the increasingly dangerous waters off East Africa, an official said Monday, an attack that could pose a huge environmental or security threat to the region.
The Greece-flagged Maran Centaurus was hijacked Sunday about 800 miles off the coast [...]
Sailors in ‘high spirits’ after supertanker released!
The Saudi oil supertanker captured by Somali pirates has taken to sea, a minister said, after being released for a suspected multi-million-dollar ransom by its captors, six of whom drowned in the operation.
The owner of the Sirius Star, Vela International, confirmed the ship’s release and that all 25 crew had survived the two-month ordeal, but [...]