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How to use the word tanker in a Sentence?

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An explosion or spillage from the tanker would not only result in an environmental disaster but also inflict significant damage on economic activities.

Ahmed Nagi

Found on New York Times
11 months ago

The trick here is that the second tanker may look completely compliant [ with sanctions ], and the trader or consumer can be duped into thinking they have purchased an unsanctioned cargo.

Mc Garry

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Don't get me wrong. There would be some lag, what if I was the guy who just bought my tanker load yesterday and the next two days crude oil dropped ?

Andy Lipow

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Most of our out-of-towners are rescheduling their trips. It’s kind of like when COVID first hit, when you hear oil spill, everyone thinks Exxon Valdez,'' Eric Zelien said, referring to the tanker that ran aground in 1989 in Prince William Sound, Alaska and spilled millions of gallons.

Eric Zelien

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

If you go to the canal you see a bunch of homemade floatation devices. It's such a violent gamble, and people are consistently willing to do it. a tanker truck pulled up that evening and started spraying water on the road.

Hugo Castro

Found on CNN
3 years ago

A tanker truck pulled up that evening and started spraying water on the road, for a moment it felt like the highway was covered in blood. I turned away and put down more crosses.

Hugo Castro

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Reduced visibility, high turbulence, and low flying can all be contributing risk factors for air tanker crashes.

Eric Kennedy

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Tragically, there appear to be no survivors as a result of the crash down in the Snowy Monaro area, (The tanker) impacted heavily with the ground and initial reports are that there was a large fireball associated with the impact of the plane as it hit the ground. There is no indication at this stage of what's caused the accident.

Shane Fitzsimmons

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

With seasonal demand support and tanker supply deficit still pronounced, we expect (fourth-quarter) tanker freight rates to stay elevated and end the year on a high note.

Rahul Kapoor

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Tanker rates need to re-rate back to economically palatable levels to entice U.S. exports, the astronomical freight rates of last few days had eroded export economics from the Gulf Coast.

Michael Tran

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The crisis with Britain is not over. Britain has the primary responsibility for ending the oil tanker crisis.

Heshmatollah Falahatpisheh

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Because from the early hours of the tanker's detention, we announced that Syria was not its destination.

Seyed Abbas Mousavi

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Despite plus-side equity returns, both fund investors and ETF investors were net redeemers of equity assets, redeeming a net $8.4 billion for the week, shrugging off progress in the U.S.-China trade talks, a nice start to the Q2 earnings season, and general agreement on the U.S. budget and ceiling, investors showed constraint after learning that Iran had seized a British oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, increasing geopolitical concerns.

Tom Roseen

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Capture of the Iranian oil tanker based on fabricated excuses ... will not be unanswered and when necessary Tehran will give appropriate answer.

Mohammad Bagheri

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I am openly saying that Britain should be scared of Iran's retaliatory measures over the illegal seizure of the Iranian oil tanker.

Mohammad Ali Mousavi Jazayeri

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Any tanker with Iranian crude follows a similar pattern of behavior : they do that by turning off their AIS transponder, turning it on and off in order to circumvent being tracked, they have deliberately taken measures to circumvent identifying the ship's destination, location and cargo origin.

Michelle Wiese Bockmann

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I think it is clear these (tanker attacks) were naval mines almost certainly from Iran, there is no doubt in anybody's mind in Washington who is responsible for this and I think it's important that the leadership in Iran know that we know.

John Bolton

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

There is a huge tanker mafia problem, but it's the only way they get water.

Joydeep Gupta

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The tanker was heavily damaged in the rear so we had( to) pump out the liquid into the median so the tanker could be lifted onto a tow truck.

Bart Graves

Found on CNN
5 years ago

OPEC production cuts are hurting the market, and as long as they are in place, the tanker market will remain challenged.

Erik Broekhuizen

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Any recovery in rates in the tanker market will be hinged on the extent of scrapping in the coming years ... we expect rates to start recovering in the second half of 2019 if scrapping remains strong.

Rajesh Verma

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Unfortunately, India is too close to the Middle East for this to make a big impression on the tanker market.

Lars Spangberg

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The fall in the price of oil has helped tanker demand and has helped tanker earnings significantly, this OPEC overproduction has helped. You had more demand coming out and also you had more demand to store the cheap oil.

George Saroglou

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Tanker and 787 are the only issues that make sense as driving the panicky mood, i would expect Muilenburg would want to deal with this sooner rather than later.

Richard Aboulafia

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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