MUSCAT SILVER

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Naming ceremony for two new tankers of Oman Shipping hosted at Hyundai Mipo Dockyard

Oman Shipping Company (OSC) held an official naming ceremony for its two new product and chemical tankers, the Muscat Silver and Rustaq Silver. The ceremony took place at the Hyundai Mipo Dockyard in Ulsan, South Korea. OSC will now take delivery of the Muscat Silver as part of a deal which will see 10 MR tankers delivered to it over the next year, the shipping company said in a press release.All the vessels will be chartered to Shell International Trading and Shipping Company Ltd for its Project Silver, which consists of 50 new-builds. They will each operate worldwide with 20-strong crews - including a number of Omani officers. The Muscat Silver and Rustaq Silver are both 183 metres in length and 32.2 metres wide, with a depth of 19.1 metres.Each medium range tanker’s capacity was 37,900 metric tonnes at the design draft and 49,800 metric tonnes at the scantling draft. They both have a gross tonnage of 29,354 tonnes and net tonnage of 12,195.