Aerial view of oil tanker ship "Aegean Pride" in New York Harbor.
A tanker is a ship designed to transport liquids in bulk. This aerial photograph shows the crude oil tanker "Aegean Pride" in New York Harbor. Tankers can range in size from several hundred tons, designed for servicing small harbours and coastal settlements, to several hundred thousand tons, with these being designed for long-range haulage. A wide range of products are carried by tankers, including hydrocarbon products such as oil, LPG, and LNG chemicals, such as ammonia, chlorine, and fresh water. Different products require different handling and transport, thus special types of tankers have been built, such as "chemical tankers" and "oil tankers". Apart from pipeline transport, supertankers are the only method for transporting large quantities of oil, although such tankers have caused large environmental disasters when sinking close to coastal regions, causing oil spills.
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Photo credit: © Robert Quinlan / Alamy / Afripics
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