Product and chemical tankers
A product tanker is a tanker that only transports semi-finished and finished products made from petroleum . Chemical tankers , also known as parcel tankers , transport petrochemical products as well as cooking oils, acids , alkalis and other chemicals.
Both differ from the crude oil tanker, apart from their significantly smaller size, through a narrower tank division, the possibility of transporting and handling different products at the same time, and through (e.g. plastic) coated or stainless steel tank walls that are intended to prevent corrosion from aggressive media such as gasoline . The narrower subdivision of the tank increases construction costs and slightly reduces the payload, but enables a more flexible response to fluctuating demand for transport capacities.
Largest shipping companies
Swell:
| Shipping company | Number of ships | Size in DWT |
|---|---|---|
| Stolt-Nielsen | 155 | 2,498,585 |
| Odfjell | 87 | 2,090,949 |
| Navig8 Chemicals | 61 | 1,346,073 |
| United Product Tankers | 35 | 1,216,653 |
| Iino Kaiun Kaisha | 37 | 1,206,713 |
| Tokyo Marine | 49 | 1,136,848 |
| Nordic tankers | 100 | 1,108,274 |
| National Chemical Carriers | 23 | 1,026,400 |
| Stena Bulk | 21st | 1,016,955 |
| Team Tankers International (Eitzen Chemical) | 49 | 909.224 |
Individual evidence
- ↑ Fleets of major chemical tanker operators, May 2014
- ↑ Stolt-Nielsen fleet by Service and Ownership as of June 1st, 2014. ( Memento of the original from December 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
