IceChem Tankers Team expansion.
Following up on our announcement 1 st June 2023, we are pleased to advise the conclusion of the transaction for Ektank AB to become Partner and Shareholder in IceChem Tankers Ltd.
We are furthermore very pleased to advise that the IceChem Tankers Team has been expanded.
In our U.S. office Gordon Kempler has joined as Commercial Coordinator with the main responsibilities of ensuring a smooth and efficient operation and coordination with our customers in the American time zone as well as commercially backing up Claude Major on the chartering side.
All communication on operational issues continues unchanged to operations@icechem-tankers.com and Gordon is reachable on gordon.kempler@icechem-tankers.com and Office Phone: +1-203-6534442 or Mobile: +1-203-6445368
In our Copenhagen office Stine Tolstrup Jensen has joined as Operations Controller with focus on operational cost control and trade receivables.
All communication on operational issues continues unchanged to operations@icechem-tankers.com and Stine is reachable on stine.jensen@icechem-tankers.com and Office Phone: +45-53739562 or Mobile: +45-30385239
We are confident that you will enjoy working with Gordon and Stine as much as we do.
Best regards,
Michael Adeltoft
Managing Director
IceChem Tankers
New Partner
It is our great pleasure to announce that Ektank AB and IceChem Tankers Ltd have signed a Letter of Intent providing for Ektank AB to become a Partner and Shareholder in IceChem Tankers Ltd. after completion of a regulatory and documentational process that is ongoing and expected to be completed within few months.
The combination of the Ektank fleet and the IceChem Tankers fleet is not only a perfect match in terms of the quality, size and features of the vessels, it is also a perfect match of philosophies and strategies in terms of how to provide the market with the highest quality of service and safest transportation of your oil and chemical cargoes in the future.
As a new partner in IceChem Tankers, Ektank bring +50 years of outstanding performance, market expertise and excellent customer relationships in particularly the Northwest European and Balticmarket segments, which perfectly complements IceChem Tankers’ market leading presence in the Transatlantic oil and chemical trade, especially in and out of the Great Lakes, as well as its European CPP trade.
We are very pleased to welcome to the IceChem Team Mr. Jonas Gustafsson, who will transfer from Ektank’s chartering department and take up the role as Senior Chartering Manager with IceChem Tankers in Copenhagen with immediate effect. Jonas’ great experience and winning personality will ensure continuity of the service and relationships that Ektank’s highly valued customers have come to expect and will continue to enjoy under the IceChem Tankers umbrella.
It goes without saying that all contractual obligations entered into on Ektank vessels will be fully honored for the duration of those commitments, after which the vessels will enter the IceChem Pool trade. The first vessel – m.t. EKEN - will join with immediate effect and when all Ektank vessels have joined, the new combined fleet of IceChem Tankers will be:
| Vessel | Dwt | Built | LOA | Beam | Coating | Ice Class |
| Eken | 13,702 | 2004 | 134,70 | 20,80 | Epoxy | 1A |
| Harbour Fashion | 16,878 | 2011 | 144,22 | 23,00 | Marine Line | 1A |
| Harbour First | 16,894 | 2011 | 144,22 | 23,00 | Marine Line | 1A |
| Harbour Feature | 16,909 | 2011 | 144,22 | 23,00 | Marine Line | 1A |
| Harbour Fountain | 16,909 | 2011 | 144,22 | 23,00 | Marine Line | 1A |
| Ekfjord | 17,006 | 2009 | 144,05 | 23,00 | Epoxy | 1A |
| RF Marina | 19,100 | 2011 | 161,68 | 23,00 | Marine Line | 1A |
| Harbour Pioneer | 19,122 | 2010 | 161,68 | 23,00 | Marine Line | 1A |
| Harbour Progress | 19,175 | 2011 | 161,68 | 23,00 | Marine Line | 1A |
| Ek-River | 19,884 | 2018 | 154,00 | 23,75 | Interline | 1A |
| Ek-Stream | 19,884 | 2018 | 154,00 | 23,75 | Interline | 1A |
| Harbour Express | 20,528 | 2011 | 161,65 | 22,40 | Marine Line | 1A |
| Themsestern | 21,823 | 2000 | 162,16 | 27,00 | Epoxy+Zinc | 1A |
The founding partners of IceChem Tankers and new partner Ektank will in the future cooperate closely and share best practices on the technical management side to ensure continuation of the highest quality and performance of all ships in the IceChem Tankers fleet – and not the least, ensure full compliance with all regulations and targets for reduction of emissions.
As part of this road to a sustainable future, the partners will also be cooperating closely in the development of the ship of the future in IceChem Tankers’ market segment, combining the vast experience of both the Ektank and the founding partners organizations in developing and bringing to market high spec Newbuildings – more on this to follow!
For your next cargo for m.t. EKEN or any of the other IceChem Tankers ships, please contact the Chartering Team in Copenhagen or Stamford by emailchartering@icechem-tankers.com or Phone:
Morten Bergstrøm Chartering Director Ph: +45-31160050
Jonas Gustafsson Senior Chartering Manager Ph: +46-705-428960
Nico Oosterman Chartering Manager Ph: +45-31170050
Claude Major Senior Chartering Manager, Americas Ph: +1-203-962-3061
We remain grateful for your highly valued continued support and look forward to servicing your transportation needs even better in the future.
Best regards,
Michael Adeltoft
Managing Director
IceChem Tankers
Ph: +45 5117 8014
Email: michael.adeltoft@icechem-tankers.com
Best regards,
Jörgen Johnsson
Managing Director
Ektank
Ph: +46 31 609254
Email: management@ektank.se
Operations moving to Copenhagen office
Opening IceChem Tankers for business end 2018 with the privilege that Robert Kurtz could immediately take on daily operations out of our principal TB Marines office in Hamburg enabled us to ensure the smooth transition and "business as usual" service that all our customers have experienced and appreciated. Now the time has come where Robert wish to complete his University studies and Petra at the same time would like the time to focus on some optimization projects for IceChem Tankers and thus it is a perfect time to move our daily operations to Copenhagen and reap the benefits of having operations and chartering physically in one office.
Thus it is our great pleasure to announce that Kate Chaston has joined IceChem Tankers as Head of Operations, based in the Copenhagen office. Kate brings 25 years of operational experience to IceChem Tankers and we are both delighted and excited that she has chosen to join the IceChem Team with her wealth of knowledge. Kate will be joined by one further Operator on June 1st and Kate, Petra and Robert will ensure that there is a smooth transfer of daily operational tasks from Hamburg to Copenhagen during the coming months. Kevin Ketelsen in the Stamford office continues his tasks on operational support unchanged.
All communication on operational issues continues unchanged to operations@icechem-tankers.com and Kate is reachable on kate.chaston@icechem-tankers.com and Phone: +45-53739562 or Mobile: +45-60394130
Please join us in thanking Robert for his great contributions over the past 1.5 years (until end April) in getting IceChem Tankers successfully off the ground as well as welcoming Petra to her new tasks for IceChem Tankers and welcoming Kate to the IceChem Team.
Houston pop up office 12-15 November 2019
IceChem Tankers’ Stamford office will move to Houston in the week of 12-15 November where we look forward to welcoming customers, brokers and all industry contacts for a coffee and a chat.
You will find the IceChem Tankers office in the Regus office complex at 2100 W Loop S, Suite 900, Houston every day from 9am to 5pm.
Thursday 14th November we also welcome you to join us from 5 pm for after-office happy hour drinks and snacks at The Tasting Room, 1101-18 Uptown Park Blvd.
To make sure there are enough drinks and snacks for a shipping crowd, please let us know if you intend to join us by email to chartering@icechem-tankers.com
We look forward to seeing all our friends in Houston shortly.
Claude, Kevin & Michael
M.t. Harbour Fountain delivered to IceChem Tankers
Today M.t. Harbour Fountain was delivered to IceChem Tankers, completing the delivery of the 10 highest Ice Class chemical tankers from TB Marine Shipmanagement to IceChem Tankers’ commercial pool management.
IceChem Tankers welcomes M.t. Harbour Pioneer
Today we are very pleased to welcome M.t. Harbour Pioneer to IceChem Tankers, being the first of 10 Ice Class 1A chemical tankers entrusted by TB Marine Shipmanagement in commercial pool management with IceChem Tankers.
The formation of IceChem Tankers
We have the great pleasure to announce the formation of Icechem Tankers which has been entrusted with the strategic commercial management of following chemical tanker fleet:
| Vessel | Dwt | Built | Coating | Ice Class |
| Harbour Fashion | 16,878 | 2011 | Marine Line | 1A |
| Harbour First | 16,894 | 2011 | Marine Line | 1A |
| Harbour Feature | 16,909 | 2011 | Marine Line | 1A |
| Harbour Fountain | 16,909 | 2011 | Marine Line | 1A |
| Harbour Pioneer | 19,122 | 2010 | Marine Line | 1A |
| Harbour Progress | 19,175 | 2011 | Marine Line | 1A |
| Rhonestern | 21,823 | 2000 | Epoxy+Zinc | 1A |
| Themsestern | 21,823 | 2000 | Epoxy+Zinc | 1A |
| Wolgastern | 21,823 | 1999 | Epoxy+Zinc | 1A |
| Weichselstern | 21,823 | 1999 | Epoxy+Zinc | 1A |
The 10-ship fleet will be delivered ex Nordic Tankers to IceChem Tankers during December 2018 and thus IceChem Tankers will in November commence fixing of spot cargoes for December open positions and fixing of Contracts of Affreightment commencing January 1st 2019 and later, may commence NOW!
IceChem Tankers wish to continue servicing well known customers and markets, primarily in the Atlantic basin including the Great Lakes, the Baltic and Arctic waters as well as cross-European and inter-American trades.
Consequently we are very pleased to inform you that chartering activities will be headed in Europe and in the Americas respectively, by two gentlemen combining for more than 50 years of experience in this trade, namely:
Morten Bergstroem, Senior Chartering Manager, active from November 1st from IceChem Tankers’ new Copenhagen office, and
Claude Major, Senior Chartering Manager, active from October 15th from IceChem Tankers’ new Connecticut office
TB Marine say in their first statement:
”On behalf of Owners, we are very happy that Michael has formed this commercial platform, headed by professional commercial people we have been dealing
with for years, with the purpose of trading our tonnage in markets that our ships have been built for and have been employed in so far – we stay with our customers !!! We wish Michael & his team all success and
look forward to seeing this commercial platform grow”
Within October we shall revert with all communication and office details, including full details of the IceChem Tankers team that will be servicing you in the future. Until then you are welcome to contact me for any further information and inquiries.