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largest super-tanker built ever is named Knock Nevis. It is well
known as Seawise Giant, Happy Giant or Jahre Viking, but with changing
of ship-owners and its function are coming new names. Now the vessel
is operating as a storage tank to the platforms in Qatar. That was
dictated, because of its large measurements. The vessel has a deadweight
of 565,000 metric tons, a length of 458 meters and a beam of 69
meters. When it is fully loaded it cannot pass through the English
channel, which is 32 miles wide, and what about Suez Channel or
Panama Channel. That is why, the ship-owner decided to use it as
a immobile storage tank offshore in the Qatar, where it is more
profitable for the owner.
The
story for building this vessel is very interesting. It was designed
to be the largest super-tanker built ever, when it was ordered.
But just some months after starting of the work for building this
vessel the owner, decided that sthis ship is too small and added
87 thousands tones more to its deadweight. So the  super-tanker
Knock Nevis collected a whole deadweight of 565,000 metric tones.
In fact this vessel is on the fifth place by its gross tonnage,
because it is just 236,710, behind the other ULCCs – TI.Europe,
TI Asia, TI Oceania, TI Africa, but when we are talking about deadweight
and measurements it is the first one. The vessel Knock Nevis was
built in 1981 and put on water with the name Sea Wise Giant, but
from 2004 is operating in the Qatar as a immobile offshore platform.
A vessel has a summer displacement of 647,955 m.t. and can carry
4.1 million barrels. The draft of this vessel when it is fully loaded
is 26.4 meters. You can imagine what are the measurements of this
vessel, and how it is moving through the water. Even the largest
ports were operating with this vessel too hardly and that was the
reason to be moored in Qatar as an immobile platform. Such kind
of vessel has only a couple of ports that can serve such ultra large
crude carrier. Knock Nevis operated a lot of years for its ship-owner,
but after the last repair was decided to work in Qatar.
date: 20th March, 2008 |
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