{"id":34458,"date":"2023-08-17T19:40:24","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T16:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/american-petroleum-tankers-seals-28-5m-us-government-deal\/34458\/"},"modified":"2023-08-17T19:40:24","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T16:40:24","slug":"american-petroleum-tankers-seals-28-5m-us-government-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/american-petroleum-tankers-seals-28-5m-us-government-deal\/34458\/","title":{"rendered":"American Petroleum Tankers seals $28.5m US government deal"},"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>Kinder Morgan\u2019s American Petroleum Tankers has secured a $28.5m option for a US government charter deal for the 2010-built MR products carrier<br \/>\n\t\t\t<span style=\"color:#00adeb;\" class=\"mt_tooltip\" data-mturl=\"\/en\/ais\/details\/ships\/shipid:442022\/mmsi:367353080\/vessel:442022\" data-info=\"EMPIRE STATE [US]\" data-photourl=\"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/file\/2023\/08\/American-Petroleum-Tankers-seals-285m-US-government-deal.aspx.jpeg\" data-assetname=\"9408126\" data-assettype=\"IMO number\">Empire State<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>The US Department of Defense said the option is the third of the current contract, which includes a 12-month base period with three 12-month options and one 11-month option, which, if exercised, would bring the cumulative value of the deal to about $136.6m.<\/p>\n<p>Work will be performed worldwide and is expected to be completed if all options are exercised, by July 23, 2025.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mailmunch-forms-in-post-middle\" style=\"display: none !important;\"><\/div>\n<p>Kinder Morgan entered the Jones Act product tanker business with an initial purchase of five ships in January 2014 via the acquisition of American Petroleum Tankers and State Class Tankers for $960m in cash.<\/p>\n<p>American Petroleum Tankers currently owns 16 MR Jones Act-qualified vessels, managed by Crowley Maritime.<\/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\/united-states\/\" rel=\"tag\">United States<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>splash247<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kinder Morgan\u2019s American Petroleum Tankers has secured a $28.5m option for a US government charter deal for the 2010-built MR products carrier Empire State. The US Department of Defense said the option is the third of the current contract, which includes a 12-month base period with three 12-month options and one 11-month option, which, if &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34459,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34458","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\/34458","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=34458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/34459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}