Malaccamax tankers can carry oil from the Persian Gulf to China. The Persian Gulf, in the Southwest Asian region is an extension of the

Malaccamax is a naval architecture term for the largest size of ship capable of fitting through the 25 metres (82 ft)-deep Strait of Malacca. Naval architecture is an engineering discipline dealing with the design construction and repair of marine vehicles The Strait of Malacca is a narrow 805 km (500 mile stretch of water between Peninsular Malaysia (West Malaysia) and the Indonesian island of Sumatra Because the Sunda Strait is even shallower at 20 metres (66 ft) minimum depth, a post-Malaccamax ship would need to use even longer alternate routes such as:^[1]

• Lombok Strait, Makassar Strait, Sibutu Passage and Mindoro Strait
• Ombai Strait, Banda Sea, Lifamatola Strait between the Sula Islands and Obi Islands, and Molucca Sea
• around Australia

or artificially excavated new routes such as:

• deepening the Strait of Malacca, specifically at its minimum depth in the Singapore Strait
• the proposed Kra Canal, which however would take much more excavation

Bulk carriers and supertankers have been built to this size, and the term is chosen for very large crude carriers (VLCC). The Sunda Strait ( Indonesian: Selat Sunda) is the Strait between the Indonesian Islands of Java and the island of Sumatra The Lombok Strait is a Strait connecting the Java Sea to the Indian Ocean, located between the Islands of Bali and Lombok Makassar Strait is a Strait between the islands of Borneo and Sulawesi in Indonesia. Sibutu Passage is a safe and deep channel some 18 miles (29 km wide that separates Borneo from the Sulu Archipelago. Mindoro Strait is a strait in the Philippines,. separating Mindoro island from Palawan province The Ombai Strait (Selat Ombai is the strait which separates the Alor Archipelago from the islands of Wetar, Atauro, and Timor in the Lesser The Banda Sea is the Sea of the South Moluccas in Indonesia, technically part of the Pacific Ocean but separated from it by hundreds of islands The Maluku Islands (also known as the Moluccas, Moluccan Islands, the Spice Islands or simply Maluku) are an Archipelago The Obi Islands are a group of islands in the Indonesian province of Maluku. The Molucca Sea is located in the western Pacific Ocean, within the country of Indonesia. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Australia topics. The Singapore Strait (or Straits of Singapore;) is a 105 kilometer long 16 kilometer wide Strait between the Strait of Malacca in the west and the The Thai Canal (formerly known as Kra Canal or Kra Isthmus Canal) refers to a plan for a large canal that would cut through southern Thailand to enable Definition There are various ways to define the term bulk carrier History The technology of oil transportation has evolved alongside the oil industry ^[2] Not constructed yet but envisioned, a Malaccamax container ship would be 470 m long and 60 m wide, with 20 m of draft with a 300,000 metric tons of deadweight (DWT) for a capacity of 18,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU). Container ships are Cargo ships that carry all of their load in truck-size containers in a technique called Containerization. Deadweight tonnage (also known as deadweight and variously abbreviated as DWT, D Twenty-foot Equivalent Unit (often TEU or teu) is an inexact unit of cargo capacity often used to describe the capacity of Container ships and Container ^[3] The ports growth requirements could be leading to the creation of new terminals dedicated to those ships. ^[4]

Similar terms of Panamax, Suezmax and Seawaymax are used for the largest ships capable of fitting through the Panama Canal, the Suez Canal and Saint Lawrence Seaway, respectively. " Panamax " ships are of the maximum dimensions that will fit through the locks of the Panama Canal. Suezmax is a Naval architecture term for the largest ships capable of transiting the Suez Canal fully loaded and is almost exclusively used in reference to term Seawaymax refers to vessels which are the maximum size that can fit through the Canal locks of the St The Panama Canal is a man-made Canal in Panama which joins the The Suez Canal is a Canal in Egypt. Opened in 1869 it allows Water transportation between Europe and Asia without circumnavigation The St Lawrence Seaway is the common name for a system of Canals that permits ocean-going vessels to travel from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes Aframax tankers are those with a deadweight tonnage of 80,000 to 120,000. An Aframax ship is an oil tanker with capacity between and. Aframax class tankers are largely used in the basins of the Black Sea, the North Sea, the

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