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This video show the 1975 construction of the tanker M/V Batillus in St. Nazaire, France. she has since been scrapped.

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This morning Fred Fry pointed us to this amazing time lapse video by our favorite maritime photographer. Click HERE for the details.

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Use the links below to learn more about ten of the world’s largest oil spills.

Amoco Cadiz
The Amoco Cadiz encountered stormy weather and ran aground off the coast of Brittany, France on March 16, 1978. Its entire cargo of 68.7 million gallons of oil spilled into the sea, polluting about 200 miles of Brittany’s coastline.

Arabian Gulf […]

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Marine Buzz reminds us why we never signed up to work aboard a Chemical Tanker.

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Head over to IMC Broker’s blog to find a really good guide to tanker sizes. From Handy to ULCC this guide has pictures, descriptions and dead weight tonnages to help you visualize the different sizes. An example:
Capesize: Refers to a rather ill-defined standard which have the common characteristic of being incapable of using the Panama […]

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OPA 90, the legislation enacted after the Exxon Valdez incident mandated double hull technology, essentially wrapping a second hull around the first, on all newly built tankers. While this has been mostly effective and (had it been mandated for use on container ships) would have prevented last year’s San Francisco Oil Spill, it fails to […]

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ALBANY, New York (Dec. 13, 2003)–Oil pollution responders take a short break Dec. 13, 2003 during the clean up efforts caused by the capsized Stellamare, a 289-foot heavy-lift cargo ship that overturned in the Port of Albany while transporting cargo. USCG photo by PA 3 Mike Lutz 

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MAREX brings us Choke Points effecting the world’s oil supply.

They write:
In 2007, total world oil production amounted to approximately 85 million barrels per day (bbl/d), and around one-half, or over 43 million bbl/d of oil was moved by tankers on fixed maritime routes. The international energy market is dependent upon reliable transport. The blockage of […]

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Video look at some of the jobs on bard Oil Tankers

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Video of the Oil Spill In South Korea.
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