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Vlasov operated cargo ships registered under either Greek, Italian or United Kingdom flags before and during the Second World War. SITMAR ships carried a letter "V" on their funnels, for "Vlasov". After the war, Vlasov purchased the former American troop ships Wooster Victory and Vassar Victory, chartering them to the IRO.
Ship Capacity Entered service Displacement Length (metres) Note Handysize tanker Helene Maersk: 25,722 GT: 2010: 39,312 tonnes: 180 metres [1] Henning Maersk: 25,710 GT: 2010: 47,330 tonnes: 180 metres [2]
In August 2018, ZM-owned LPG ship Zodiac operated LPG tanker Northumberland. Zodiac Maritime Ltd is an international ship management company that owns and charters out large vessels. [1] It is part of Ofer Global based in Monaco and chaired by Eyal Ofer. [2] It has a long-standing business relationship with Mediterranean Shipping Company.
This list of freight ship companies is arranged by country. Companies listed own and/or operate bulk carriers , car carriers , container ships , Roll-on/roll-off (for freight), and tankers . For a list of companies that own and operate passenger ships ( cruise ships , cargo-passenger ships , and ferries ), see List of passenger ship companies .
This is a list of container ships with a capacity larger than 20,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU). Container ships have been built in increasingly larger sizes to take advantage of economies of scale and reduce expense as part of intermodal freight transport. Container ships are also subject to certain limitations in size. Primarily ...
In February 2011 Maersk announced orders for a new "Triple E" family of container ships with a capacity of 18,000 TEU, with an emphasis on lower fuel consumption. [4] They were built by Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) in South Korea; the initial order, for ten ships, was valued at US$1.9 billion (2 trillion Korean Won); [5] Maersk had options to buy a further twenty ships. [6]
In 1976, Italian businessman Glauco Lolli-Ghetti founded Scorpio Ship Management in New York and soon returned to Europe, settling in Monaco. [3] In 2003, Scorpio Ship Management was headed by the businessman's grandson, 24-year-old Emanuele A. Lauro. [4] In 2009, the tanker fleet was separated into a separate structure, Scorpio Tankers. [3]
Williamsburg was laid up at the Navy wharf in La Spezia, Italy while offered for sale by Camper & Nicholsons International of Monaco. [4] The ship sank at her moorings, in La Spezia harbor, in 2015. [5] On 19 January 2016, the Port Authority of La Spezia authorised the operation for the removal of the ship. [6] Her wreck was scrapped in situ in ...