Sentence examples for tanker waiting from inspiring English sources

When the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, in August of 1945, I was in the wardroom of a fleet tanker, waiting to catch a ride with a ship that was heading home.

An Air Force KC-10 tanker waited ahead, flying a wide circle over a Central Asian desert.

The port remained closed, with some 50 oil tankers waiting offshore to unload.

In the north, the line of tankers waiting to cross the Turkish frontier is sometimes backed up for 30km (18 miles).

For that, the oil must travel via pipeline through Sudan proper, to the tankers waiting at Port Sudan.

Fos-Lavera, kept dozens of tankers waiting offshore in a strike that entered its 11th day, but attempts to start strikes at nearby oil refineries met limited success.

At the port of Kribi, the 660-mile pipeline will empty up to 250,000 barrels a day of coveted crude into tankers waiting to transport the unctuous black gold to Western markets.

The most impressive sight is not in town but from town, of scores of freighters and tankers waiting off-shore to enter the clogged harbour: it takes an average of 45 days to dock and three months to get a container out of the port.Just another African business bubble, to be puffed up by the usual Western buccaneers?

Hurricane Harvey's strike at the heart of the U.S. oil and gas industry caused backups throughout the petroleum system on Monday, from storage tanks in Cushing, Okla .to tankers waiting for gulf ports to reopen, and set U.S. gasoline prices soaring to the highest levels in two years.

Other global crude producers have tankers waiting in the Gulf of Mexico for the ports to reopen.

Once broken down into a manageable consistency, the fat was sucked up a pipe into tankers waiting on the surface.