Tankers under the sub categories as follows.
Tankers areplaying major role in the entire global marine cargo operation. These help theworld to maintain the continuity of the commercial and industrial operations bytransporting bulk commodities and materials across the world.There arevarious types of tankers used in oceanic cargo transportation. Product Tankers areplaying major role among them. Generally these tankers are smaller than thecrude oil tankers and their DW < 70,000. These have no structuralelements inside the cargo space (double skin).
These are provided with asegregated cargo system including a submersible pump and its own cargo line tothe manifold, on deck. (ProductTanker)The Tankers can be identified under thesub categories as follows. ü ChemicaltankersThese chemical tankers are carrying thevarious forms of chemicals which require specific designs to maintain theconsistency of the chemicals that are being carried. Different types ofcoatings made of different substances are applied on them to identify easily.These are carrying different types of chemical products simultaneously. Thetanks of these are completely made of stainless steel or stainless steel iscoated in it. All these tanks are having its’ own loading and unloading systemwith separate pumps and piping systems.
ü WinetankersTransporting wine has become quite simpler and modern because it doesn’trequire much harder and protected tankers. They are mainly used to transportwine to their destinations.ü JuicetankersThese are mainly used carry orange juicein mass Quantities. CarlosFischer, the Brazilian juice tanker is one of the biggest juice tanker thatoperates currently.
ü HydrogentankersSame as the name mentions, thesehydrogen tankers are used to carry liquefiedhydrogen gas.ü PetrochemicaltankersThey carry refinedproducts that derived from crude oil which can be classified in to main twocategories as followü Whiteproducts (Diesel oil, gasoline, jet fuels, kerosene, lube oils, etc.)ü Blackproducts (fuel oils, residual products)(BritishLiberty – Product Tanker)(Fure Nord– Product Tanker)(HighEndeavour – Product Tanker)
