{"id":7206,"date":"2020-04-01T17:52:56","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T14:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/dsme-wins-vlcc-order-from-pan-ocean\/7206\/"},"modified":"2020-04-01T17:52:56","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T14:52:56","slug":"dsme-wins-vlcc-order-from-pan-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/dsme-wins-vlcc-order-from-pan-ocean\/7206\/","title":{"rendered":"DSME Wins VLCC Order from Pan Ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>South Korean shipbuilder Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME) has secured an order for a very large crude oil carrier from compatriot shipping company Pan Ocean.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The order comes at a very challenging time for shipbuilding business and represents the fist oil tanker construction contract secured by DSME this year.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The 300,000 TDW VLCC will span 335 meters in length and it will be 60 meters wide. The shipbuilder said the newbuilding would be fitted with a scrubber as a means of complying with the IMO 2020 sulphur cap.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The ship is scheduled for delivery by the third quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the order, DSME said that due to the low oil prices, tanker orders are expected to pick up, adding that it is ready to take advantage of such a trend.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>So far this year, DSME has won USD 400 million worth of orders covering three ships, <a href=\"https:\/\/worldmaritimenews.com\/archives\/290718\/dsme-inks-deal-with-knot-for-shuttle-tanker-duo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">two shuttle tankers<\/a> and one VLCC.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>To remind, back in February DSME penned a contract with Norwegian-based shipowner Knutsen NYK Offshore Tankers AS for the construction of two shuttle tankers.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The 870,000 bbls shuttle tankers are expected for delivery in the second half of 2022. The construction contract includes options for additional units.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>World Maritime News Staff<\/p>\n<p>world maritime news<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Korean shipbuilder Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME) has secured an order for a very large crude oil carrier from compatriot shipping company Pan Ocean. The order comes at a very challenging time for shipbuilding business and represents the fist oil tanker construction contract secured by DSME this year. The 300,000 TDW VLCC will &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[316,208,2020,3900,120,1176],"class_list":["post-7206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news","tag-dsme","tag-ocean","tag-order","tag-pan","tag-vlcc","tag-wins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7206","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=7206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/7207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}