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Monday May 23rd EURONAV’s 333 mtr long Belgian flagged VLCC ALICE (CLICK at the Photo!) arrived for the first time in the port of Rotterdam loaded with 270.000 ton dieseloil which cargo was loaded in Pengarang in Malaysia, it was a long time ago that this large quantity of Dieseloil arrived in Europe, a part of the cargo was discharged at the ETT (Harbournumber 5620) before the ALICE was shifted to the dolphins (palen) 82 to discharge the remaining of the cargo by STS into other tankers, the VLCC departed on May 31 again from Rotterdam, the 299.320 DWT ALICE was built at the Hyundai shipyard in South korea

At least two companies are planning to ship diesel in bigger-than-usual tankers from Asia to Europe in what traders said is a rare move as cheap oil drives up diesel supply and slowing economies dent demand. French oil major Total has provisionally chartered the very large crude carrier (VLCC) Alice on a six-month time charter to ship ultra-low sulphur diesel (ULSD) from Asia to Europe, traders and shipbrokers said. A VLCC can carry roughly 2 million barrels of oil. The ship will load diesel from Singapore or Malaysia to head to Europe and possibly ship crude oil back, one of the sources said.