Oil Tankers Association

The strike by fuel tankers was withdrawn on Saturday afternoon as the Indian Oil Corp put on hold the new transportation rates amid a crisis at hundreds of filling stations in south Bengal, their association said.

The All Jammu and Kashmir Oil Tankers Association today called off their strike after the government accepted their demands, and would resume the supply for the Jammu region from today.

With the oil tankers' association going on an indefinite strike across Jammu and Kashmir, petrol pumps across the state have almost gone dry, crippling normal life.

A Vietnamese sailor says his oil tanker has been released after pirates stormed the ship and siphoned off some of its cargo of gas oil.

A Vietnamese oil tanker has lost contact with its operator and may have been hijacked by pirates after leaving Singapore port almost a week ago, officials said on Wednesday.

In the same narrow waterways where more than 300 people died this spring aboard the ferry Sewol, another ship owned by the same company crashed into an oil tanker 11 years earlier. The ferry's captain had chosen the difficult water path to cut a mere seven miles from its journey.

A Japanese oil tanker exploded Thursday off the country's southwest coast near Himeji port, leaving one of the eight people aboard missing, the coast guard said. Four others were severely injured.

Three employees of the insolvent railway company involved in last summer's runaway oil train disaster that killed 47 people are due to appear in court Tuesday to face criminal negligence charges in the small Quebec town that was partially incinerated by exploding tanker cars.

Several train cars carrying crude oil derailed and caught fire on Wednesday along the James River in Virginia, with three black tankers ending up in the water and leaking some oil.

A French-owned oil tanker missing off Ivory Coast with 17 sailors on board likely has been hijacked, an official with an international piracy watchdog said on Monday, in what may be the latest attack by criminal gangs targeting the ships to steal their valuable cargo. Meanwhile, a sailor died in a similar attack on Monday near Nigeria's largest cit...

Gunmen stormed a tanker ship off the coast of Nigeria's oil-rich southern delta, ransacking the vessel and kidnapping five Indian sailors in the latest attack targeting foreign workers in the volatile region, a shipping company said on Wednesday.

The US Navy has said that one of its guided-missile destroyers collided with an oil tanker early on Sunday but that no one was injured in the accident.

Suspected Somali pirates today abducted seventeen Indian and five Italian sailors after taking over an Italian-flagged vessel off the African coast.The oil tanker 'Savina Caylyn' was taken over by the pirates at 0520 hours IST with a total of 22 crew members on board, a senior official at the Directorate General of Shipping told PTI.Those abducted ...

A bus slammed into an oil tanker in southern Pakistan before dawn on Sunday, setting off a blazing inferno that gutted both vehicles and killed 32 people, police said.The accident reportedly occurred because the bus driver fell asleep and lost control of his vehicle, said Mohammad Farooq, local police chief in Jamshoro district where the accident t...

Police say at least 10 gunmen have torched 29 NATO oil tankers in southwest Pakistan.The attack early on Saturday is one of several to hit the supply line for US and NATO forces in neighbouring Afghanistan since Pakistan closed a key border crossing on September 30. On Wednesday, militants torched 70 fuel tankers and killed a driver.Deputy Commissi...

The strike by fuel tankers was withdrawn on Saturday afternoon as the Indian Oil Corp put on hold the new transportation rates amid a crisis at hundreds of filling stations in south Bengal, their association said.

The All Jammu and Kashmir Oil Tankers Association today called off their strike after the government accepted their demands, and would resume the supply for the Jammu region from today.

With the oil tankers' association going on an indefinite strike across Jammu and Kashmir, petrol pumps across the state have almost gone dry, crippling normal life.

A Vietnamese sailor says his oil tanker has been released after pirates stormed the ship and siphoned off some of its cargo of gas oil.

A Vietnamese oil tanker has lost contact with its operator and may have been hijacked by pirates after leaving Singapore port almost a week ago, officials said on Wednesday.

In the same narrow waterways where more than 300 people died this spring aboard the ferry Sewol, another ship owned by the same company crashed into an oil tanker 11 years earlier. The ferry's captain had chosen the difficult water path to cut a mere seven miles from its journey.

A Japanese oil tanker exploded Thursday off the country's southwest coast near Himeji port, leaving one of the eight people aboard missing, the coast guard said. Four others were severely injured.

Three employees of the insolvent railway company involved in last summer's runaway oil train disaster that killed 47 people are due to appear in court Tuesday to face criminal negligence charges in the small Quebec town that was partially incinerated by exploding tanker cars.

Several train cars carrying crude oil derailed and caught fire on Wednesday along the James River in Virginia, with three black tankers ending up in the water and leaking some oil.

A French-owned oil tanker missing off Ivory Coast with 17 sailors on board likely has been hijacked, an official with an international piracy watchdog said on Monday, in what may be the latest attack by criminal gangs targeting the ships to steal their valuable cargo. Meanwhile, a sailor died in a similar attack on Monday near Nigeria's largest cit...

Gunmen stormed a tanker ship off the coast of Nigeria's oil-rich southern delta, ransacking the vessel and kidnapping five Indian sailors in the latest attack targeting foreign workers in the volatile region, a shipping company said on Wednesday.

The US Navy has said that one of its guided-missile destroyers collided with an oil tanker early on Sunday but that no one was injured in the accident.

Suspected Somali pirates today abducted seventeen Indian and five Italian sailors after taking over an Italian-flagged vessel off the African coast.The oil tanker 'Savina Caylyn' was taken over by the pirates at 0520 hours IST with a total of 22 crew members on board, a senior official at the Directorate General of Shipping told PTI.Those abducted ...

A bus slammed into an oil tanker in southern Pakistan before dawn on Sunday, setting off a blazing inferno that gutted both vehicles and killed 32 people, police said.The accident reportedly occurred because the bus driver fell asleep and lost control of his vehicle, said Mohammad Farooq, local police chief in Jamshoro district where the accident t...

Police say at least 10 gunmen have torched 29 NATO oil tankers in southwest Pakistan.The attack early on Saturday is one of several to hit the supply line for US and NATO forces in neighbouring Afghanistan since Pakistan closed a key border crossing on September 30. On Wednesday, militants torched 70 fuel tankers and killed a driver.Deputy Commissi...