No you're not being picky, mainstream media coverage of shipping incidents is appalling. Ships are usually either 'ferries' or 'tankers' or the generic 'freighter' (closer to the mark, I admit). I guess we're lucky the beeb actually stretched to the term 'container ship' and got the class of vessel correct.
I saw the orange tanker and thought 'Well, that ain't it, can't they get anything right?!'.
Btw, I photographed MSC Napoli passing Terneuzen in 2005 and the photo's on my website.
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