Knock Nevis, largest oil tanker ever built, sold
- Wed, 2 Dec 2009
The world's largest ship, the 565,000-tonne Knock Nevis, has been sold. The oil tanker is 1,504ft long – 50ft longer than the Empire State Building is tall.
She was built in 1979 as the oil tanker Seawise Giant, but was converted to a floating storage vessel five years ago and moored off Qatar. In that role she can hold 4.2m barrels of oil, which equates to more than $330m at today's price.
But don't expect to see her sailing up the English Channel. Firstly she has a draught of more than 80ft which means she can't get through the shallower bits, and secondly her buyers intend to move her to the Singapore area.
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