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Tanker
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A TankerOperator supplement
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Contents
TANKEROperator’s
Top 30 tanker companies
2 Comment
5 Introduction
6 Teekay Corporation
7 Frontline
8 MOL Tankship Management,
Overseas Shipholding Group
(OSG), Euronav
9 Tanker Pacific Management
(Singapore), Kristen
Navigation, Nippon Yusen
Kaisha (NYK)
10 MISC Berhad (MISC), Tsakos
Group, Vela International
Marine
11 National Iranian Tanker Co
(NITC)
Features
18 Profile: Stealth Maritime
Stealth Maritime and StealthGas
has recently invested in tanker
tonnage to add to the Vafias
Group's portfolio of shipping
interests.
20 Insurance
Just before the P&I renewal
season came to an end for
another year, leading insurance
broker Aon looked at the state of
play in all sectors of the
insurance market.
12 Hyundai Merchant Marine
(HMM), BW Shipping
Managers, Dynacom Tankers
Management
13 Maersk Tankers
14 BP Shipping, Sovcomflot,
Novorossiysk Shipping
(Novoship)
15 National Shipping Corp of
Saudi Arabia (NSCSA),
Shipping Corporation of India
(SCI)
16 Thenamaris, TORM , Chevron
Shipping, COSCO Group,
Kuwait Oil Tanker Co (KOTC)
17 Titan Ocean, China Shipping
Development Tanker, SK
Shipping, Minerva Marine
23 Chartering
Broström Tankers was one of
the first users of what would
eventually become Veson
Nautical's fully-fledged
Integrated Marine Operations
System (IMOS).
23 Profile: Wilhelmsen Maritime
Services
Several companies have lost
their identities as a result of
consolidation into Wilhelmsen
Maritime Services (WMS).
Front cover: Product tankers have and will continue to
boost tanker owners and operators' fleets, TORM being
a classic example. Seen at Copenhagen is the 2007-built
Latvian operated Hyundai Mipo designed 37,000 dwt
Kazdanga.
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