Oil Tanker

Feb. 26 The world's largest oil tanker.: The 372, 400 - DWT tanker Nisseki Maru, capable of carrying 450, 000 kiloliters of crude oil, carries out a speed test off the coast of Kure, Japan before commencing her maiden voyage this week to the Persian Gulf to load. She is the biggest oil tanker in the World, 347-metres long, built for the Tokyo Tanker Co of the Nippon Oil Co group, by Ishikawajima Harima Heavy Industries at their Kure shipyard. She is expected to carry four million kiloliters of crude oil in nine trips a year from the Persian Gulf to Kagoshima, Japan for storage

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