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Deadweight tonnage (also known as deadweight; abbreviated to DWT, D.W.T., d.w.t., or dwt) or tons deadweight (DWT) is a measure of how much weight a ship can carry. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is the sum of the weights of cargo , fuel, fresh water , ballast water , provisions, passengers, and crew .
DWT Year; ALICE [1] 9709087 Crude Oil Tanker Belgium: 299982 2016 ANTONIS I.ANGELICOUS [2] 9930777 Crude Oil Tanker Greece: 165054 2023 DALIAN [3] 9595228 Crude Oil Tanker United States: 299981 2013 DELTA AIGAIGON [4] 9516923 Crude Oil Tanker United States: 319725 2014 DELTA AMAZON [5] 9748916 Crude Oil Tanker United States: 319896 2015 DELTA ...
Total capacity 1,400,000 m 3, 19 tanks, ... Oil products and ethanol. Maximum 10,000 DWT [11] [5] Tarbert power station Tarbert, County Kerry SSE
A typical Malaccamax tanker can have a maximum length of 333 m (1,093 ft), beam of 60 m (197 ft), draught of 20.5 m (67.3 ft), and tonnage of 300,000 DWT. [ 2 ] Similar terms Panamax , Suezmax and Seawaymax are used for the largest ships capable of fitting through the Panama Canal , the Suez Canal and Saint Lawrence Seaway , respectively.
By 1990 its assets reached a gross tonnage carrying capacity of 1,800,000 DWT. ... 50 crude oil tankers, 34 oil products tankers, 14 shuttle tankers, and 10 natural ...
An oil tanker's inert gas system is one of the most important parts of its design. [18] Fuel oil itself is very difficult to ignite, however its hydrocarbon vapors are explosive when mixed with air in certain concentrations. [19] The purpose of the system is to create an atmosphere inside tanks in which the hydrocarbon oil vapors cannot burn. [18]
MT Petali is an Aframax crude oil tanker.Formerly known as Mastera for almost two decades and briefly as Mikines in early 2022 and Alma until September 2023, she and her sister ship Tempera were the first ships to utilize the double acting tanker (DAT) concept in which the vessel is designed to travel ahead in open water and astern in severe ice conditions.
An ore-bulk-oil carrier, also known as combination carrier or OBO, is a ship designed to be capable of carrying wet or dry cargoes. The idea is to reduce the number of empty ( ballast ) voyages, in which large ships only carry a cargo one way and return empty for another.