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• n  the largest class of oil tankers

• A package which observers believed to contain a payment drops over the Sirius Star supertanker, January 9, 2009.
• They recently captured the Sirius Star, a Saudi supertanker carrying $100 million in crude oil, by striking hundreds of miles away from the shipping lanes being patrolled by some .
• Odiernoa supertanker of a man with a shaved head who looks like ancient turtlemet with a group of battalion commanders in the ruins of a medical center that had been blasted .

News & Articles

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• Iran Oil-Tanker Owner Seen Expanding Fleet by IHS Amid Sanctions
  NITC, Iran’s biggest tanker company, increased the capacity of its supertanker fleet by 23 percent this year amid sanctions related to the nation’s nuclear program that bar most of the world’s ships from carrying the nation’s crude, according to IHS Maritime.
  Aug. 8, 2013 - Bloomberg

Quotes

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• Robert Gates in International Herald Tribune
  In essence, the bill asks me to run the Department of Defense like a skiff, and I'm trying to drive the biggest supertanker in the world,Gates told senators Wednesday. "And we just don't have the agility to be able to manage a two-month...
• George Osborne in Public Service
  In light of Exxon's decision to permit a lapsed alcoholic to command a supertanker carrying tens of millions of gallons of crude oil though the treacherous waters of Prince William Sound, thereby endangering all of the individuals who depended upon... John Paul Stevens http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Paul_Stevens&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGTCC74z_WMZ-r3o02FeHXkQyZApQ International Herald Tribune http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/06/25/america/25cndpunitive.php&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHonYcoSlXZw2B1DM380JC2Hxw7Rw Jun 25, 2008 96689 128260 supertanker Osborne said: Creating a new culture of financial discipline in Whitehall is not going to be easy. It will be like turning around a supertanker. But with a determined political will and the right plans, we can do it. We can turn the Whitehall...