Tankers have also gotten smaller, at least at the top end.
The big 500k+ Ton (and that’s not a typo, we’re talking about 8 times heavier than the largest battleships ever built) ULCCs like Knock Nevis and Seawise Giant went to the scrapers a decade+ ago.
The big 500k+ Ton (and that’s not a typo, we’re talking about 8 times heavier than the largest battleships ever built) ULCCs like Knock Nevis and Seawise Giant went to the scrapers a decade+ ago.