tanker
Example Sentences
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Every president since has challenged Iran over concerns about Gulf shipping, but President Ronald Reagan faced the closest parallel to today’s Hormuz shutdown during what was called the tanker war in the late 1980s.
A Russian tanker that was badly damaged in an attack in the Mediterranean last week is drifting without crew towards the Libyan coast, Italy's civil protection service said on Friday.
From Barron's
Of these, 71 crossings were by oil tankers and more than half were loaded, Kpler data showed, with most travelling east out of the strait.
From Barron's
He entered Iraqi waters in November on a vessel refuelling oil tankers -- his first trip as a seafarer.
From Barron's
Tracking data for a Pakistan-flagged oil tanker suggests it sailed close to the Iranian coast on its passage through the strait on 15 March, rather than the more widely used route through the middle.
From BBC
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