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One more aframax tanker for Polembros

Polembros Shipping of Greece is to add another aframax tanker to its fleet of dry and liquid bulk carriers. George Vakirtzis, managing director of the Athens-based family-owned company, confirms to Splash the purchase of Elia, a 115,400 dwt tanker built in 2006 by the Japanese shipyard Sanoyas.

Chief engineer belived to have fallen over board

On July 6, 2014, at 2 p.m. the US Coast Guard received a call from the "Elia" reporting that the 47-old Russian Chief Engineer was missing. He was seen last time at 10.10 a.m., and then disappeared. He was believed to have fallen overboard. The vessel was thoroughly searched, but he wasn’t found. The tanker was 20 miles off Port Aransas, en route from Lake Chrales to Corpus Christi in the Gulf of Mexico.The vessel was anchored on Corpus Christi Anchorage in the evening of July 6. The man wasn’t found yet. The Coast Guard Sector Houston/Galveston watchstanders had responded to the call and Sector Corpus Christi watchstanders began facilitating the search with crews from a Coast Guard Air Station Corpus Christi MH-65 Dolphin helicopter and a Coast Guard Station Port Aransas based 45-foot response boat. A Corpus Christi based HU-25 Falcon airplane crew also joined the search. If crews were unable to locate the man before nightfall, the Coast Guard Cutter "Amberjack", an 87-foot patrol boat, was expected to join in the search.