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  2. Oil tanker - Wikipedia

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    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]

  3. Tanker (ship) - Wikipedia

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    A tanker (or tank ship or tankship) is a ship designed to transport or store liquids or gases in bulk. Major types of tankship include the oil tanker (or petroleum tanker), the chemical tanker, cargo ships, and a gas carrier. Tankers also carry commodities such as vegetable oils, molasses and wine. In the United States Navy and Military Sealift ...

  4. List of largest ships by gross tonnage - Wikipedia

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    Tokyo Tanker [8] Globtik London: 238,207 Scrapped [9] FSO Asia: TI Class: Supertanker: 379 m (1,243 ft) 68 m (223 ft) 24.525 m (80.46 ft) 236,638 In service as FSO: Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering: Tankers International [10] FSO Africa: In service as FSO [11] CMA CGM Jacques Saadé: CMA CGM Jacques Saadé-class container ship ...

  5. Salvage operation for oil tanker in Red Sea not safe, EU ...

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    The European Union's naval mission in the Red Sea says private companies have called off attempts to salvage a burning oil tanker because the situation is unsafe. The Greek-owned and flagged MV ...

  6. Crippled oil tanker in Red Sea raises fears of environmental ...

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    This frame grab from video released by the media arm of Yemen's Houthi rebels on Thursday shows explosions on the Greek-flagged oil tanker Sounion in the Red Sea after Houthis boarded it and set ...

  7. Greek-flagged oil tanker appears to be leaking oil ... - AOL

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    The Greek-flagged crude oil tanker Sounion that was recently attacked by Yemen's Houthis is still on fire in the Red Sea and now appears to be leaking oil, a Pentagon spokesman said on Tuesday.

  8. Seawise Giant - Wikipedia

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    The TT Seawise Giant —earlier Oppama; later Happy Giant, Jahre Viking, Knock Nevis, and Mont —was a ULCC supertanker and the longest self-propelled ship in history, built in 1974–1979 by Sumitomo Heavy Industries in Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan. She possessed the greatest deadweight tonnage ever recorded. Fully laden, her displacement was ...

  9. Operation to tow stricken tanker and avert spill starts in ...

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    The operation has started to tow a Greek-registered oil tanker stranded in the Red Sea after an attack by Houthi militants last month, a shipping source told Reuters on Saturday. Towing the 900 ...