GENMAR SPYRIDON

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GENMAR SPYRIDON

Post by shipstamps » Wed Nov 19, 2008 4:19 pm


Built as a Suezmix double-hulled tanker under yard No. 1179 by Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. Ltd., Ulsan, South Korea for Metrofin Ltd. (Eyelet Navigation), Greece.
24 August 1999 keel laid down.
03 December 1999 launched under the name CRUDE DIO.
Tonnage 81.151 gross, 52.036 net, 159.959 dwt., dim. 274.5 x 48 x 23.1m. Draught 17.07m. Length bpp. 264m.
Powered by a B&W diesel engine ?hp, one propeller, speed ?
14 February 2000 completed.

After delivery managed by Metrostar Management Corp.
04 July 2002 she was blocked by Greenpeace activists from the Greenpeace vessel ESPERANZA who boarded the vessel at the north entrance to the Bosporus, preventing the vessel from transiting the Straits.
14 Activists had boarded the vessel by inflatable boats during the afternoon, while the CRUDO DIO was waiting her turn to transit the Bosporus.
They put up banners promoting a ban on oil and favouring “clean” energy.
After 11 hours of blockade 13 activist were arrested by the Turkish authorities.
The CRUDE DIO at that time was carrying a full cargo of crude oil from Novorossiysk, Russia.

June 2003 sold in block with 19 other Metrostar tankers for US$525 million to General Maritime Corp. US.
CRUDO DIO was owned then by GMR Spyridon, Marshall Islands, renamed in GENMAR SPYRIDON, and managed by General Maritime Management.

18 March 2004 she got engine trouble 700 nautical miles south-west of the Azores, towed by the tug FOTIY KRYLOV to Setubal, Portugal for repairs, where she arrived early April 2004.

March 2006 management was taken over by General Maritime Portugal.

http://www.equasis.org gives for 2008: IMO no 9185528.Owned still by GMR Spyridon, Marshal Islands and managed by General Maritime Portugal, Lisbon. Under Marshall Islands flag and registry.

Marshall Island 2006 39c sg?, scott?

Source various web-sites. DNV Exchange on line.

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Re: GENMAR SPYRIDON

Post by aukepalmhof » Fri Feb 09, 2018 7:02 pm

01 September 2015 renamed in GENER8 SPYRIDON.
01 December 2016 Sold to Everly Shipping & Trading S.A. and renamed KRITI ISLAND.

http://www.equasis.org gives for 2018: IMO no 9185528. Same owners. Under Greek flag and registry.
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