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Iran’s biggest oil tanker berths at Bushehr port

Business Materials 7 March 2014 11:21 (UTC +04:00)

Baku, Azerbaijan, March 7
By Fatih Karimov - Trend: The largest Iranian-made oil tanker berthed at Bushehr port, in southwest of the country, the Mehr News Agency reported on March 7.

The 113,000-ton Aframax tanker is 250 meters long, 44 meters wide, and 14.8 meters of which would emerge in the water, Mehr quoted Mohammad Liravi, the deputy director of Sadra Company, which has manufactured the tanker, as saying.

This is one of the four tankers which will be manufactured by Sadra for Venezuela, he added.

In July 2013, former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad inaugurated a dry-dock described as being the largest in the Middle East by Iranian media.

Dry dock is a structure able to contain a ship and to be drained or lifted so as to leave the ship free of water with all parts of the hull accessible for repairs, painting, etc.

"The dry dock can accommodate 300,000 ton tankers up to 370 meters long, 80 meters wide and 14.5 meters high, in addition to 140,000-cubic meter LNG carriers with a length of 470 meters, a width of 80 meters and a height of 14.5 meters," Press TV reported.

Iran is already able to repair ships of up to 80,000 dwt(dead weight tons).

The Mehr News agency quoted Ahmadinejad as saying that building the dry dock cost $433 million.

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