Sentence examples for tanker away from inspiring English sources

Once pirates enter a tanker, they turn off its automatic beacon and drive the tanker away to steal the goods on board.

The water was tankered away after it collected behind a protective bund on the site, designed to contain the spill if an oil tank ruptured.

These outposts could be responsible for surveillance duties, steering local freighters or tankers away from potential threats and cooperating with coalition naval forces.

Four Spanish tugs tried to tow the 81,000-ton tanker Prestige away from the pristine beaches and rich fishing grounds of Galicia today.

This 50km long canal, linking the sea of Marmara to the Black Sea, is meant to divert tanker traffic away from the Bosphorus and thereby diminish pollution and the risk of collisions in the sinuous waterway.

The tanker getting away is now opening up the field for Tripoli's retaliation.

On Monday, before the tanker slipped away, Reuters reported that Libya's parliament had ordered the formation of a military force to retake all rebel-held oil ports.

Angola is in the midst of a gusher in oil revenue, its hotels crammed with oil executives and its harbor filled with tankers carrying away the 1.4 million barrels of crude pumped here each day.

We can see tankers far away, and occasionally one of the old pleasure paddle-steamers, the Waverley or the Balmoral, which make the crossing to Swansea when the tide is right, which isn't very often.

"Our sewer network has been overwhelmed by the ground water and pumping or tankering it away will not help, as more will continue to rise up from under the ground," the company said.

The tanker was traveling away from Iraq, through the Strait of Hormuz, through which 20percentt of the world's oil passes.