Size and safety set tanker trends

The number of oil spills per year has steadily reduced since 1970 (source: ITOPF)

To chart the history of oil tankers is to put a mirror to more than a century of technical evolution, disaster, politics and regulation. Ships able to carry oil were first developed in the 1860s but it was the 1870s when designers developed what many recognise as the first proper ...

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