CRUDE OIL SUPERTANKER:

[Jim Winsor]

Can anyone tell what is the largest crude oil PANAMAX supertanker on earth??

[BobS]

There is no such thing as a Panamax supertanker.

Panamax means a ship of maximum dimensions possible to transit the locks of the Panama Canal, which are 1,000ft long by 110ft wide and 85ft deep. Usually these result in a tanker in the deadweight range 50,000 to 80,000 tonnes; 965ft (290m) in length; 106ft. (32.3m) beam; and 39.5ft (12.04m) draft.
A supertanker usually means a tanker of over 200,000 tonnes and much too long, wide and draughted to transit the Panama (or even Suez) Canal

[Jim Winsor]

Ok I understand but I did'nt ask you about that and granted I screwed up with the term PANAMAX but come lets not get technical here.All i wanted to know is ....let me put it another way.Is there a photo on here of the largest crude oil super tanker in the world???

[Andreas Spörri]

The biggest crude oil tanker worldwide is the "Seawise Giant" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seawise_Giant

Regards
Andreas

[Jim Winsor]

Than you very very much greatly appreciated..

[BobS]

If you do a search on the IMO no 7381154 you will find photos of it on this site, including of when it went to the scrapyard.

[John Jones]

Yes, the biggest crude oil tanker worldwide 'was' the SEAWISE GIANT.
The largest two today are the TI OCEANIA (IMO No.9246633) and TI EUROPE (IMO No.9235268) at 234,006 g.t., 441,585 DWT, and 380m LOA.
Also sisters FSO ASIA and FSO AFRICA of similar dimensions are in use as Floating Storage and Offloading units following conversion by Dubai Drydocks in 2009 and 2010 respectively.

As a point of interest the largest tanker trading today with Panamax beam of 32.26m is the chemical and oil tanker THERESA MEDITERRANEAN 77,787 DWT built in 1986, though fully laden she would be too deep draughted at 15.13m.

The largest truly Panamax dimensioned tanker today is Newlead Holdings' NEWLEAD COMPASSION built by Dalian in 2006 and coming in at 41,589 g.t., 72,782 DWT, 228.6m LOA, 32.20m Beam and 12.00m Draught. Its largely academic though as not many tankers transit the canal fully laden.
Best Regards
John J.