Tanker Shipping & Trade
Tanker Shipping & Trade is an essential read for all those involved with the design, construction, outfitting, operation, and maintenance of oil and chemical tankers. Tanker Shipping & Trade covers all types and sizes of these tankers, and combines all the elements that contribute to successful tanker management, both commercial and technical. Tanker Shipping & Trade has been received so enthusiastically in its first year that its frequency of publication is being increased from four times to six times a year in 2008.
Tanker Shipping & Trade details the latest vessel designs and deliveries. News from around the world includes fleet focus country reports, looking at operators in particular areas each issue. Core topics such as safety, management and class appear in every issue, and annual features address a variety of technical and operational subjects. Each issue also focuses on the design, operation and propulsion options and developments for a specific tanker type.
Tanker Shipping & Trade is distributed to tanker owners, operators and managers; designers, builders and repairers; consultants, brokers, charterers and finance houses. Copies reach the desks of senior management. In the case of shipping companies, for example, these include technical and commercial directors, superintendents, naval architects, engineering and ship project managers.
Each issue of Tanker Shipping & Trade includes:
- news digest
- newbuilding contracts & completions
- repair, maintenance & modernisation
- profile of a leading tanker owner/manager
- propulsion
- vessel profiles
- market analysis
- last word: incisive industry comment
