Sentence examples for tankers up from inspiring English sources

First, this whole mess started because the Air Force can't pay for new tankers up front, so it tried to push back the costs by leasing.

Turkish shipyards are highly regarded both for the production of chemical and oil tankers up to 10,000 dwt and also for their mega yachts.

After the apologies, arsonists set fire to tankers lined up in Sibi, a town in Baluchistan, on Wednesday night.

The port can accommodate tankers of up to 325,000 tons at offshore moorings, and special installations have been built to guard against the pollution of Pacific waters from spillages.

Witnesses said about 150 armoured vehicles and 50 other vehicles – including jeeps, buses, ambulances and water tankers – took up positions in the district of Riffa, where the royal family lives and where there is a military hospital.

Normally, when water supply is interrupted, private tankers fill up with safe water from a filling station in Tamale and sell it to residents cut off from the mains supply.

"We used to have bills of lading and manifests for everything that came through here," said the port official as he watched tankers fill up the Jumbo Express's pontoon.

The company began experimenting with "test production" at the end of 2007, which involved oil tankers filling up directly at the wellhead and then delivering directly to the local market.

In 2005, oil tankers made up 36.9% of the world's fleet in terms of deadweight tonnage.

On Monday, US-led coalition warplanes destroyed 116 fuel tankers loaded up with Syrian crude outside al-Bukamal, a city in the east of Deir Ezzor province.

An eighteen-wheeled tanker speeds up behind Humbletonian.