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A chemical tanker is a type of tanker ship designed to transport chemicals in bulk. As defined in MARPOL Annex II, chemical tanker means a ship constructed or adapted for carrying in bulk any liquid product listed in chapter 17 of the International Bulk Chemical Code. [1] As well as industrial chemicals and clean petroleum products, such ships ...
26. Notes. [1] MV Manifa (formerly MV Sirius Star) is an oil tanker formally owned and operated by Vela International Marine. [3] With a length overall of 330 m (1,080 ft) and a capacity of 2.2 million barrels (350,000 m 3) of crude oil, she is classified as a very large crude carrier or VLCC. [3] Vela is based in the United Arab Emirates and ...
List of Tankers Vessel Name Operator IMO Number Ship Type Country 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 ...
August 2024 oil spill caused by attacks on the tanker Sounion; Location: Red Sea, "77 nautical miles to the West of Al Hudaydah": Coordinates: 1]: Date: 22 August 2024: Cause; Cause: Destruction of the oil tanker Sounion by Houthi militants: Operator: Delta Tankers: Spill characteristics; Volume: Up to 150,000 tons (~1 million barrels) of petroleum: The attacks on the MT Sounion refers to ...
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]
A cofferdam is a small space left open between two bulkheads, to give protection from heat, fire, or collision. [2] Tankers generally have cofferdams forward and aft of the cargo tanks, and sometimes between individual tanks. [3] A pumproom houses all the pumps connected to a tanker's cargo lines. [1] Some larger tankers have two pumprooms. [1]
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 ...
Plan of a double-hulled tanker. A double-hulled tanker refers to an oil tanker which has a double hull.They reduce the likelihood of leaks occurring compared to single-hulled tankers, and their ability to prevent or reduce oil spills led to double hulls being standardized for oil tankers and other types of ships including by the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from ...