tanker

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That brought the total number of LNG tanker crossings since the start of the war to eight.

From Barron's • May 18, 2026

Justice Department seized the Suez Rajan, a tanker carrying almost a million barrels of Iranian oil, for violating U.S. sanctions.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

But investors had hoped for more progress toward reopening the crucial strait, where oil tanker traffic has ground to a near standstill since the outbreak of the war, sending energy prices soaring.

From Barron's • May 15, 2026

Maaden erected prefabricated warehouses for the fertilizer and rigged piping systems to move corrosive sulfuric acid, a key ingredient in phosphate production, into stainless-steel tanker trucks.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026

Just yesterday he drove one of a dozen tanker trucks delivering the contents of a high school swimming pool to Camp Pendleton Marine Base.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman