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Recent Examples of supertanker
The number of supertankers headed for China dropped to the lowest in almost two years, adding to recent concerns about demand in the largest oil importer during the second half of the year.
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Sydney Lake, Fortune, 6 July 2024
Instead, every 10 days or so an oil supertanker arrives at a refinery near the Honolulu port, producing almost 80% of the state’s energy, Mikulina said.
—Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 29 Jan. 2024
The Sea Port Oil Terminal being developed off Freeport, Texas, will be able to load two supertankers at once, with an export capacity of 2 million barrels of crude oil per day.
—Matthew Daly, Quartz, 11 Apr. 2024
Regulations that went into effect in 2020 reduced the amount of sulfur in the fuel used by supertankers.
—Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2024
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Sydney Lake, Fortune, 6 July 2024
Instead, every 10 days or so an oil supertanker arrives at a refinery near the Honolulu port, producing almost 80% of the state’s energy, Mikulina said.
—Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 29 Jan. 2024
The Sea Port Oil Terminal being developed off Freeport, Texas, will be able to load two supertankers at once, with an export capacity of 2 million barrels of crude oil per day.
—Matthew Daly, Quartz, 11 Apr. 2024
Regulations that went into effect in 2020 reduced the amount of sulfur in the fuel used by supertankers.
—Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for supertanker
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Today, South Korean journalists, scholars, and think tankers, as well as several members of the ruling party, publicly ask the same thing.Robert E. Kelly, Foreign Affairs, 30 Dec. 2024
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The tanker crossed the Estlink 2 power cable at the exact time the disruption was reported on Christmas Day.David Faris, Newsweek, 29 Dec. 2024
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There is a castle, an annual Shakespeare festival, a boat club (barges, mainly, given that Staffordshire has more miles of canal than any other county in England) and two semi-professional football clubs.Daniel Taylor, The Athletic, 2 Jan. 2025
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Chilling temperatures signaled its return, but so did an important annual ritual: the last barge heading downriver from the Twin Cities, bringing the 2024 shipping season to an end.Madeline Heim, Journal Sentinel, 3 Dec. 2024
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Miraculously, only one member of the Hooligan Navy was killed while serving, during a collision with a Dutch freighter.David Wolman, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Jan. 2025
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Authorities said at the time that their initial findings showed a Chinese fishing vessel and a Chinese freighter caused the disruption, but that there was no evidence Beijing deliberately tampered with the cables.Reuters, NBC News, 7 Jan. 2025
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The pistons, belts, and pulleys create the ambience of an engine room on a steamship, as clumps of fiber are separated and realigned into uniform fabric.Shane C Kurup, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Dec. 2024
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Hartley offers a fascinating account of the logistics of navigating the Volga before the introduction of steamships, including the herculean work of barge haulers, who had to drag boats upstream.Maria Lipman, Foreign Affairs, 22 Feb. 2022
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The Pentagon expected the warship to be operational in the first half of 2025. What To Know Photos taken by Chinese ship spotters showed the Fujian returned to Jiangnan Shipyard in Shanghai, where it was constructed in 2017 and launched, from its sixth sea trial.Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 8 Jan. 2025
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The shortfall is so severe that warship production is down to its lowest level in a quarter century.Nicole Foy, ProPublica, 2 Jan. 2025
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The bi-level superliner cars offer a higher vantage point, Magliari said.Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 5 Oct. 2024
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With daily departures from Chicago Union station, the superliner service rumbles through Illinois chasing mile after mile of golden-red corn fields before thudding over the Mississippi river into Iowa.Monisha Rajesh, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Oct. 2022
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Plus, head to Walmart to shop more vacuums, steamers, and other floorcare.Kelsey Fredricks, People.com, 10 Jan. 2025
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Nori Press Travel Steam Iron The solution to wrinkle-free clothes on vacation is finally here thanks to this handheld steamer that weighs less than one and a half pounds.Gabriella Maestri, Travel + Leisure, 7 Jan. 2025
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For example, when over 1,000 people died in a ferryboat accident in the Red Sea in 2006, critics accused the military of failing to deploy quickly enough to rescue them.Jeff Martini, Foreign Affairs, 1 Sep. 2011
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On another ferryboat is the Constitution and all the state and local officials dedicated to upholding it.Alexandra Petri, Washington Post, 18 June 2024
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“Supertanker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/supertanker. Accessed 17 Jan. 2025.
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