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largest four ulcc tanker in the world

TI Oceania is definitely
one of the four largest
vessels of the world fleet.
The ULCC (Ultra Large
Crude Carrier) was built
in the year of 2002 in the
Daewoo ship-yard is
South Korea, by the
shipping company Hellespont. TI
Oceania is one of the four sister-
ships, which are largest double-
hulled supertankers, and just a
month ago I wrote one issue
about one of them. The four
vessel are TI Europe, TI Asia, TI
Oceania and TI Africa. Of course
all of that vessels has their own
characteristics and their own
features. The owner of four
sister ships is one of the largest
companies of the world tanker
fleet – Euronav.
TI Oceania is ship which is built
to be a lot of productive and to
has a high speed even fully
loaded. The oil tanker has a
crossing speed of 17.1 knots,
while fully loaded and 18.1 knots
in voyages under ballast. This is
increasing the profitability of this
tanker. This is very important for
the ship-owner because TI
Oceania can carry 4.2 millions of
barrels just in one voyage, and
so much fuel can feed up the
heavy economy of one small
country for a few months. The
whole project for building this
tanker is almost new. The plating
is innovated with a large number
of steel scantlings, which is
decreasing the weight of the
ship. But that don ’t happen over
the safety of the ship. When
building so large vessel you
should pay attention not only for
profitability but also for the
ecology. Is there is a spillage of
such large tanker a sea life in
one sea may die at all, and the
result for the human will be
terrible. That is why this ship is
secured as much as possible. The
ship is designed by the old
technology of double-hull. That
is not innovation on it, but is very
useful, in spite of large costs for
building and decreasing of tank
spaces. In the spaces between
the two hulls are situated ballast
tanks. The coverage of the
ballast tanks is new, which is just
testable, but for the years of
using this ship is easy to be seen
that it extends the life of the
coatings inside. the color of the
ship is white, to reflect the sun
light, and the increase of the
temperature into the halls to be
minimum. The inertgas
system is pretty good and
has the opportunity to fill
all the tanks of the ship
TI Oceania, but many
times that is not enough
because this vessel is
sailing almost everywhere
in the world oceans and is
passing not only once the
Equator. So keeping low
temperatures will decreasing the
emissions of hydrocarbon, which
will protect the ship from
explosions.
As I said TI Oceania is one of
the largest oil tankers in the
world. So this ship has a gross
tonnage of 234,006 metroc tons,
net tonnage 162,477 metric tons.
The whole deadweight of TI
Oceania is 441,585 metric tons.
So large vessel has a large
measurements. The length of
motor vessel TI Oceania is 380
meters, the breadth is 68 meters
and the depth is 34 meters. Can
you imagine how big is that ship.
The draught of TI Oceania is 24.5
meters. This ship is definitely one
of the largest built ever, and this
is why I decided to introduce TI
Oceania as one of the greatest
oil tankers of the world.
date: 24th April, 2008
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