supertanker

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supertanker (plural supertankers)

An extremely large tanker ship.

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A ship's cost partly depends on its complexity: a small, general cargo ship will cost $20 million, a Panamax -sized bulk carrier around $35 million, a supertanker around $105 million and a large LNG carrier nearly $200 million. Source: Internet

In turn that encounter constituted Tehran’s reply to British actions in the Mediterranean Sea, where Royal Marines detained an Iranian supertanker allegedly bound for Syria in breach of European Union sanctions. Source: Internet

You can get 10 smaller aircraft drops with more retardant and more coverage for the same price as Mobilizing the supertanker, Not even having it fly. Source: Internet

SBN: 07-058460-5 citation The Manhattan was a specially reinforced supertanker sent to test the viability of the passage for the transport of oil. Source: Internet

The supertanker Torrey Canyon ran aground off the coast of Cornwall in 1967 causing the first major oil leak that killed marine life along the coast. Source: Internet

"It's been painfully long," said Jim Wheeler, the CEO and president of Global SuperTanker. Source: Internet

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