The supertanker passed Venezuela under the Russian flag

The largest tanker Venezuela Ayacucho replaced a name on "Maxim Gorky" and since June goes under the Russian flag, follows from Equasis data. This vessel with a deadweight of 320,8 thousand tons, that is class VLCC (Very Large Crude Carrier). It contains 2 million barrels of oil. The tanker was constructed by the Chinese shipyard of Bohai Shipbuilding. In 2013 the state oil company Venezuela Petróleos de Venezuela S.A. solemnly accepted a new supertanker. The minister of oil Venezuela Raphael Dario Ramires Karrenyo then said that "it is an aircraft carrier of our Fatherland, our sovereignty". As reports daily business newspaper "RBK daily", transition of the Venezuelan tanker...