Columbia Shipmanagement Deutschland
Hamburg, Germany
http://www.csm-d.com/?p=43

Yep, it's sad news. But I'll try and photograph any ship that comes and goes.

As you know, the Shell logic goes like this "The Sydney refinery, one of only eight refineries left in Australia, was being closed because at 79,000 barrels of production a day, it was simply too small to compete with big new Asian refineries that could produce more than one million barrels of refined oil products a day. The decision to close the refinery and turn it and the Gore Bay terminal on Sydney Harbour into an import business by mid-2013 remained, despite more than three months' consultation with a workforce about to be cut by up to 90 per cent."

Make the most of your Aframaxes Clyde, it'll be a solid diet of product tankers soon...........

Cheers,
tropic