All four oil tankers were constructed for shipping company Hellespont Group by Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering in Okpo, South Korea, entering service between March 2002 and April 2003.

The coatings in the ballast tanks are protected by two features, a full-time double-scrubbing system supplying drier inert gas to the ballast tanks, and also by the white painted upper hull reflecting the sun’s energy.

The extensive conversions were carried out by EuroNav and Overseas Shipholding Group at Drydocks World – Dubai.

[7] In 2017, TI Europe was chartered by Statoil and converted to an FSO vessel, moored at Port of Kuala Sungai Linggi in Malaysia.

[8] In 2019, it was announced that TI Oceania would be converted to an FSO vessel and moored off the coast of Singapore.