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Aframax. An Aframax vessel is an oil tanker with a deadweight between 80,000 and 120,000 metric tonnes. [1] The term is based on the Average Freight Rate Assessment (AFRA), a tanker rate system created in 1954 by Shell Oil to standardize shipping contract terms. [2] Due to their favorable size, Aframax tankers can serve most ports in the world.
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.
Suezmax. " Suezmax " is a naval architecture term for the largest ship measurements capable of transiting the Suez Canal in a laden condition, and is almost exclusively used in reference to tankers. The limiting factors are beam, draft, height (because of the Suez Canal Bridge), and length [1] (even though the canal has no locks).
Shoreline impacted. 800 mi (1,300 km) The Prestige oil spill occurred off the coast of Galicia, Spain in November 2002, caused by the sinking of the 26-year-old, structurally deficient oil tanker MV Prestige, carrying 77,000 tonnes of heavy fuel oil. During a storm, it burst a tank on 13 November, and French, Spanish, and Portuguese governments ...
Rear house, full hull, midships pipeline. An oil tanker, also known as a petroleum tanker, is a ship designed for the bulk transport of oil or its products. There are two basic types of oil tankers: crude tankers and product tankers. [1] Crude tankers move large quantities of unrefined crude oil from its point of extraction to refineries. [1]
Aker Philadelphia Shipyard Holds Ceremonial Keel Laying for First Aframax Tanker for SeaRiver Maritime, Inc. PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Aker Philadelphia Shipyard, Inc. (APSI), the sole ...
44 m (144 ft 4 in) Height. 21 m (68 ft 11 in) MV Colon —earlier Arita and Sorocaima —is a crude oil tanker of the Venezuelan PDVSA . Launched in 2012 by Iranian shipyard SADRA in Bushehr, it was the first Aframax built in the country, as well as the largest ship ever produced in the whole Middle East. [1]
This is a list of tankers. ... Aframax 2003-2006 still active - 12 vessels in class BP