Archive for Archive for March, 2010
Top 5 biggest ship in the world and a speacial ship
Launching of the M/T Miss Claudia
Oil Tanker
Knock Nevis – The Largest Ship Ever – 565.000 DWT
China’s Supertanker Completed in Guangdong
China’s largest self-developed supertanker named Xinpuyang was completed in Nansha port of Guangdong province.
China’s largest self-developed supertanker was completed in south China’s Guangdong Province and has already set sail. The 333-meter-long and 60-meter-wide oil tanker, named Xinpuyang, was designed and built by the Guangzhou Longxue Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. and the Marine Design and Research Institute [...]
Pirates release supertanker
SOMALI pirates have freed the Greek supertanker VLCC Maran Centaurus, one of the largest ships ever hijacked, after a plane dropped at least $US5 million ($5.43 million) in ransom on the deck.
The ransom, also one of the largest ever paid, sparked a deadly feud within the group of pirates delaying the release of the ship [...]