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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 ...
TI-class supertanker. Hellespont Tara (later TI Europe) in the Netherlands on June 24, 2005. The TI class of supertankers comprises the ships TI Africa, TI Asia, TI Europe and TI Oceania (all names as of July 2004), where the "TI" refers to the ULCC tanker pool operator Tankers International. The class were the first ULCCs (ultra-large crude ...
Varun Shipping Company Pvt Ltd [32] India. LPG Gas Carriers / LPG/C Maharshi Labhatreya, formerly LPG/C Hector[33] Moss Verft [34] LPG gas garrier. 1984 [35] sold to Mount Risho Investments for $12 mill for storage project in Africa [36] Former supertankers converted into Mercy class hospital ships.
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 ...
Batillus class (4 ships) 414.22 m (1,359 ft) 553,661–555,051 DWT. 274,837–275,276 GT. 1976–2003. Broken up. The largest and longest ships ever to be laid down per original plans. They became second only to Seawise Giant (after its jumboisation) for deadweight tonnage and length overall.
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]
The bunkering of ships with oil instead of coal, mass-production of automobiles and increasing aviation, all increased demand for oil and thus oil transport. In 1928 the World's largest oil tanker was the 16,436 gross register tons (GRT) C.O. Stillman, completed that year for Canadian owners by Bremer Vulkan in Germany. [34]
The new ships are considerably larger than the previous record holder, 364,767-ton Berge Stahl, which had been the largest bulk carrier in the world since it was built in 1986. While the draft of the old vessel is the same as that of the Valemax vessels — 23 metres (75 ft) — the new ships are 20 metres (66 ft) longer and 1.5 metres (4.9 ft ...