VOL. XXXI

NO. 48

5-SEPTEMBER-1988

KUWAIT

KOTC Takes Delivery of New Products Tanker

The Kuwait Oil Tankers Company (KOTC), a subsidiary of the Kuwait PetroleumCorporation (KPC), took delivery on 1 September of a new highly-sophisticatedproducts tanker - the 35,000 dwt Al-Kuwaitah - at the Samsung Shipbuilding KojeIsland yard in South Korea. The vessel, which was due to sail on 1 Septemberfrom South Korea bound for Kuwait, is one of six products carriers ordered byKOTC from Samsung in January 1987,...