{"id":33580,"date":"2023-05-05T04:58:11","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T01:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/pdvsas-tanker-fleet-in-urgent-need-of-overhaul\/33580\/"},"modified":"2023-05-05T04:58:11","modified_gmt":"2023-05-05T01:58:11","slug":"pdvsas-tanker-fleet-in-urgent-need-of-overhaul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/pdvsas-tanker-fleet-in-urgent-need-of-overhaul\/33580\/","title":{"rendered":"PDVSA\u2019s tanker fleet in urgent need of overhaul\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content entry clearfix\">\n<div class=\"mailmunch-forms-before-post\" style=\"display: none !important;\"><\/div>\n<p>The Venezuelan tanker fleet is largely not fit for trading, internal documents seen by <em>Reuters<\/em> show.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>More than half of the 22 tankers in state-run oil company PDVSA need urgent repairs or should not trade, according to an internal report by the oil firm.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Venezuela\u2019s tanker fleet has been hobbled by sanctions for many years leading to many falling into disrepair.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ships currently lack seaworthiness classification and certifications by flag nations,\u201d the report, issued two months ago, said.<\/p>\n<p>PDVSA has had to rely on increasing amounts of chartered in tonnage to move its oil in recent years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"mailmunch-forms-in-post-middle\" style=\"display: none !important;\"><\/div>\n<p>The report recommends five tankers be withdrawn immediately and seven head for urgent repairs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe tanker fleet is showing a decline in the quality of its operations due to advanced physical deterioration, which implies higher maintenance and repair costs. Planning for sending the tankers to dry docks has been very affected by lack of payment to shipyards and providers,\u201d the report said.<\/p>\n<p>PDVSA has ordered ships in non-major shipbuilding nations such as Iran and Argentina, but issues with production and payment have seen deliveries heavily delayed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"mailmunch-forms-after-post\" style=\"display: none !important;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class=\"stream-item-size\" style=\"\">\n\t    <!-- \/91333190\/SPLASH247_*_Splash247_Article_*_Strip_Slot_*_2 --><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1_95_0_1_2\">\n<script>\ngoogletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1_95_0_1_2'); });\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-bottom-meta post-bottom-tags post-tags-modern\">\n<div class=\"post-bottom-meta-title\"><span class=\"tie-icon-tags\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span> Tags<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"tagcloud\"><a href=\"https:\/\/splash247.com\/tag\/venezuela\/\" rel=\"tag\">Venezuela<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>splash247<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Venezuelan tanker fleet is largely not fit for trading, internal documents seen by Reuters show.\u00a0 More than half of the 22 tankers in state-run oil company PDVSA need urgent repairs or should not trade, according to an internal report by the oil firm.\u00a0 Venezuela\u2019s tanker fleet has been hobbled by sanctions for many years &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tanker-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/33581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}