10 May, 2022 by Juan Carlos Díaz Lorenzo

Marflet Marine Adds New Oil Tanker 'Santiago I'

Marflet Marine has added to its fleet the new product tanker 'Santiago I' (IMO 9730347). Flagged in Cyprus, it was built at the 3 Maj Brodogradiliste shipyard in Rijeka (Croatia) and delivered on March 14. The shipowner is Forzina Shipping Co. Ltd., and the operator is the aforementioned Marflet Marine, based in Madrid, which has five other product tankers and one crude oil tanker.

Weighing 49,999 deadweight tons, it measures 182.83 m in overall length – 174.40 m between perpendiculars – 32.20 m in beam, 17.50 m in depth, and has a cargo capacity of 53,509 cubic meters. It is powered by a MAN B&W 6G50ME B9.3 Tier II engine, with a power output of 7,020 kW on a shaft, allowing it to maintain a speed of 14 knots.

In addition to transporting petroleum products, it is equipped for other chemical products or vegetable and animal oils and molasses, as well as any product classified as IMO Type 2. For this purpose, it is equipped with a nitrogen generation plant, 18 cargo tanks, and two slop tanks, in addition to 14 complete segregations with independent lines.

In its Spanish phase and presided over by Javier Cremades de Adaro, Marflet was one of the most important shipping companies in oil, with a fleet of large tankers – “Ceuta”, “Málaga”, “Melilla”, “Barcelona”, “Aragón”, “Tarragona”, “Gibraltar”... – and also projects for gas and tourist ships that did not succeed.

Photo: Dragec (shipspotting.com)