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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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Nearly 70 percent of Russia’s oil is being transported by shadow tankers, according to an analysis published in October by the Kyiv School of Economics Institute, a research organization based in Ukraine.Michael Schwirtz, New York Times, 28 Dec. 2024
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The tanker vented a vapor cloud that was visible to passing motorists.Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 26 Dec. 2024
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Supplies for the season are brought in via a massive barge from Vancouver while fresh produce is brought in weekly.Kyle J. Russell, USA TODAY, 16 Dec. 2024
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Deep water surrounded much of the area, so someone had placed sheets of wood on top of a chain link fence and balanced both on blocks of plastic foam, creating a makeshift barge that could pull piles of debris from shore to shore. Skid loaders crisscrossed the nearby sand.Blake Nelson, The Mercury News, 12 Nov. 2024
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Skip the redundant backstory and give us more freighter action with Captain Galt, Keamy, and Minkowski.Michael Alan Connelly, Vulture, 1 July 2024
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In 2024 through September, Boeing delivered thirty eight MAX aircraft to China, and in July two 777 freighters to Air China.Jerrold Lundquist, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
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In those days, as international trade was transformed by refrigerated steamships, Argentina was a major exporter of grain and meat, by some measures as wealthy as the United States.Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2024
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And, within about 48 hours, local vigilantes rounded up Chinese residents — hundreds of people — forced them onto steamships bound for San Francisco and told them to never return again.Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 26 Nov. 2024
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Also on Thursday, a Chinese warship with the bow number 552 was spotted about 50 nautical miles (58 miles) off the coast of Zambales province in Luzon, the Philippines' most populous island.Micah McCartney, Newsweek, 19 Dec. 2024
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South Korea Defense Ministry/AP In November, Mr. Nakatani became the first Japanese defense minister to board a South Korean warship, when the ship made a port call in Yokosuka, Japan.Ann Scott Tyson, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Dec. 2024
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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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That’s why some flight attendants choose to invest in a portable travel steamer to help keep their uniforms wrinkle-free while away from home.Amelia McBride, Travel + Leisure, 31 Dec. 2024
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They’re often stuffed with either shrimp or pork, wrapped in banana leaf to prevent them from sticking to one another, and thrown into a steamer.Christina Liao, Vogue, 27 Dec. 2024
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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 5 Jan. 2025.
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