Ship designed to transport liquids or gases in bulk.
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Examples for "tanker "
Examples for "tanker "
1 The Everglades oil tanker is one example of how the business works.
2 Northern Marine Management said the tanker was now heading north toward Iran.
3 Another tanker carrying European fuel sailed back to Europe on Sep. 12.
4 Some reports say the bomb was in a lorry or water tanker .
5 Thursday's attacks left one tanker ablaze and both adrift, shipping firms said.
1 This plan enabled the oiler and the correspondent to get respite together.
2 The small oiler slipped the coiled mesh through his calloused hands.
3 The oiler appeared to have finished his work for the present.
4 Before that you must pass through the engine-room as an oiler .
5 A few moments later there was a tremendous explosion on the tramp oiler .
1 These cars are loaded from the tank ships at the ports of entry, and then sent inland to fill up the various depots.
2 "Say, Mister," asked Whistler, turning to the skipper of the smack, "is there a tank ship in here?"
1 He said that a tanker ship has been deployed as a camp.
2 A first flight attempt was scrubbed yesterday, after a tanker ship sailed into the splash zone.
3 BP hopes to use a giant funnel that would catch the oil and channel it to a tanker ship .
4 The stench of burning oil hung heavily in the air from a tanker ship that the Luftwaffe had hit out in the harbor.
5 BP hopes to cover the well with a giant inverted funnel that would capture the oil and channel it to a tanker ship .
6 Back in 2006, as the Probo Koala tanker ship delivered waste to Ivory Coast, her sister ship, Probo Emu, was preparing for the same journey.
7 Scant storage also has prompted companies to store crude offshore in tanker ships .
8 He explained most of Australia's fuel is transported through narrow straights by tanker ships .
9 Football field-sized tanker ships like the Tampico slip by, ferrying oil to refineries upstream.
10 Moller-Maersk is planning to buy new product tanker ships , according to Danish business daily Borsen.
11 Alpha Bank will act as the servicer of the loans, which include financings provided for dry bulk and oil tanker ships .
12 Maersk Tankers operates one of the world's largest fleets of tanker ships , 162 by the end of 2012.
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