Seapower; 101; Lifeblood

This. Is. A small island in Japan. Rocky. Desolate. And home to two hundred twenty five people. It's totally dependent on cheap power for it to survive. Without it. They can get anything from the outside. This means everything to people. Now Grassman you know my life. If everything's bad. It's very difficult. The world is full of places like communities that couldn't survive without the life that flows to them across the sea. There is an isolation room.

Because for only a couple of times. When. The. Phone. In. Go for three months. Time. We ran out of rice some more. This whole only sustain and support the ships bring to us. You know she must needs are modest Rice heating oil a few outside luxuries. Great nations too are vulnerable. Just like small islands. When the sea lanes are cut the lifeblood fails. And people starve. Economies collapse and governments go to war.

Too. Today is the lifeblood of civilization. Almost half of the world's reserves come out of the sands of the Middle East. And just pump into tankers for transportation. Around the planet. From the ship he said to me once that God must have been the ship owner because he put what you need so far away from where you needed. The x on got to call us back. Taipei's man are marriage brokers middlemen between shippers that carry the world's most vital resource and customers that cannot survive without it. We represent no one in particular and everyone in general Jack is out there to be out of the room but there is other life blood strategic resources without which no modern nation can survive.

But nothing else has the power of oil. Whoever controls that slow controls the economy of the planet. The world that will fill the tanks of this VLCC or very large crude carrier is one of the most dangerous cargoes on earth. It comes from one of the most dangerous regions on Earth the Middle East. A single spark either in cargo or the region itself could cause an explosion. For those who own the tanker fleets business is just as risky. It's been described to me as the world's largest crab. It's a big risk it's a big gamble. People take the ships and I and I they balance them 40 days to the Arabian Gulf and sometimes they sit for two weeks before they shot all that expense is borne by them

on end. I mean we've all heard of the golden breaks and the rich Norwegians and I mean they didn't do it you know making apple pies. This. The good stuff on the audio but we don't have any news about when we're going to get to information and I would have to ask them was. So now we'll see 10 days out of Karg island in around the VLCC Leneen waits in the Red Sea at the southern end of the Suez Canal. Below her decks a thirty five thousand tons of Iranian heavy crude.

That's where these stories have to go in and you start doubting whether we're going to get through it all. They keep saying we will go through. But I understand their wives have been calling you and driving you crazy. Mine must have been among them I'm sure. Captain Thanasi has sailed these waters for more than 25 years waiting outside the Suez Canal the world's most vital strategic waterway is nothing new. Lenny is on year long charter to the Iranian government. She's stuck until $200000 in fees is paid to pass through the canal. It won't happen until the Iranians have sold her cargo for the

best possible price. It could take days even weeks. No one does this because no one can say we can make money. Greeks are guided in everything by that I love the feel for the sea. Maybe we do have a dose of seawater in our blood. Who knows. Anyway it's a quarter of a mile long and 200000 tons displacement she carries just one and a half percent of the daily flow of oil pumped up from beneath the earth. It would take twenty five thousand Lennie's to carry the world's annual output of oil. Then he carries a crew of 25. Captain and officers are all Greek seamen from Asia mainly the Philippines and India. The one you this is the first time I'm the end of

my one time but a team. VB if I feel like missing them as I write some letters and make some voice tapes. I am sending them some money for. For me it's really hard here working inside inside. That's dangerous and risky. Sometimes we feel homesickness good. How long Remy and her crew will wait here is out of Captain Synopsys control. Is in the hands of the unseen middle men who control the oil markets of the world. What you're seeing is the focus of world oil prices are

converging to a Squarespace of probably less than 300 square feet. It's within that area that we have a free market of price. It's here the car goes like Leonie's will be traded here her future will be decided. People are consciously changing the mind throughout the day and shifting. The buying of a commodity than selling the next one. Personally I think it's going to go higher. So E5 it goes a little bit higher. And so you have this round robin that goes and goes to gets to a point where. The market forces say that's too high and then it trades back the other direction to well for the bottom. Rodney Dow is a trader at one of the most volatile futures markets in the world at 9 max. The New York Mercantile Exchange at the World Trade Center in New York. OPEC's production is somewhere between 20 to 25 million barrels a day on the New York Mercantile Exchange. We trade five times that volume. Why does that happen. It may change hands 25 50 75 time before the final person grabs it

and ships it. It's like riding a roller coaster. It's up and down and it never stops. This why don't you let me do this. So when I was. Young One day you'll be happy. Do you. Think you would do the captain Thanasi won't know his cargo had been sold until the Suez Canal Authority gives him permission to proceed. He has no contact with those who chartered the vessel. He come out.

To. The lake of fire to make the fire. It's. This 90 percent of all tanker accidents are the result of human error. With Fire. The single greatest hazard aboard emergency drills are a matter of life and death. Reactions rehearsed so often that they become second nature. As master of the ship. The first thing I'm concerned about is the safety of the cargo the people. We must be aware of everything. No captain can excuse himself from being absolutely responsible. Captain Thanasi has good reason to be concerned. He has experience of tankers on fire. So that was when the Iranians were fighting the Arctic on the way

we were hit by rocket and Xserve. It was an experience that cannot be forgotten they exist without ever coming back loaded with cargo from the hog. The rocket exploded it exploded and all hell broke loose during the Iran Iraq war. Hundreds of tankers were hit. Hundreds of seamen died and millions of tons of oil were lost. As each side tried to cripple the economy of the other gasoline packed gasoline in. So the bad part was that the oil spilled into the sea and ignite it was burning oil so they could see with the ship stop develop the right side of the ship was on fire. But yes the paint outside of the accommodations had caught fire. Every day we would all gather on the right side of the ship.

We had the start of a lifeboat with everyone. With the lifeblood of the industrialized world at risk. America moved two carrier battle groups into the region. Red Flag tankers were now under the protection of allied naval forces. A precedent was set for superpower involvement that would lead directly to Desert Storm. We know that the incidence of loss is really quite dramatic. Having maybe two or three passengers. Had. To travel to the Gulf to go on board one of these vessels. But it was a very frightening experience. It was probably one of the only times that I wished I was back in London sitting here rather than going to see what we did show. Jonathan Jones is an insurance underwriter at Lloyd's of London. The greatest centre of marine insurance in the world. Lloyds was losing hundreds of millions of dollars a year when the Iran-Iraq war was at its height. Unlike other companies Lloyds underwriters or names as they're known often have their

own money at stake. Jones and his colleagues are gathered together in small syndicates. Members personally responsible for all claims. The stakes are high. So are the rewards. We develop a system whereby we would put people on board a ship. Ex. Royal. Marine commanders to give the crew some degree of safety. To let them know when the Exocet missile was coming. That they could get into a sandbagged area so that they would be safe. After the explosion they could go and put up the fire by having this man on board the ship. He would let us know whether the ship tires. Were working ok. You found that on some of them and they could even put out the fire. So the the man on board would actually let us know that the vessel was safe. And we were on the ground insurance from that mine. Says. Pilot says pilot.

Thank you. Captain Thanasi and his crew I resigned to the delays as he says waiting. It just seems like. Along with her regular crew Lenny carries two officer cadets fresh out of the Maritime Academy in Athens and anxious to learn the realities of life that sea. With Lenni going nowhere. The bridge becomes a school room. It's a duty captain and I see you take very seriously. Relax when I first went to sea it was very difficult to find someone. A captain or a lieutenant to spend time with you as a cadet.

In a few years. Today's cadet will be a captain and we will be colleagues. I want to transfer as much knowledge as I can. I know all that we travel because we love the sea not for them. It shouldn't sound strange because when you are 18 20 years old during those 10 years and you come of age aboard the ship it's impossible to get rid of your love for this because slowly you do funding. You. Why Lenny waged in the Red Sea her owners Trudeau's shipping with headquarters in parathas Greece worry about finding charters and cargo for the other 31

tankers in their fleet. There are two different ways of chartering a ship. One is the end of April ship for a certain amount of time from a certain company and the other is the spot market where ships are a target for one specific of specific cargo. George Daucus is ship's agent for Glenny or ship's husband as his position is known. The ship's president is the focal point which relays all information between the ships and all the other departments. Nearly 7000 tankers carry the lifeblood of the 20th century. Over a hundred million tons of crude oil at sea at any one time. It does seem like chaos and it is it's organized chaos. You have every participant in the

world who was involved in trading energy. It's an open outcry. Best buyers best offers will sell it and you have all the energies of the world focus at that point. It's a market with tremendous power and influence and increase of just a few dollars in the price of oil. Can sand economies really nations into recession. Any second you're sitting here on the desk some news that bad could come out that could change history and change what you're doing here the minute. And you may be on the right side of the market. We may be on the wrong side of the market does react quickly. Survive those who don't become history. In the Mediterranean in the waters off the turkey or the remains of a ship that sank 3000 years ago. To carry the life of a bronze age a single vital resource without which civilization could not have begun.

Just as our modern world cannot survive without oil which is brought by tankers in the Bronze Age clearly that people could not survive without the copper that was carried by ships from one place to another. For nine years marine archaeologist George Bass has led an international team of scientists and students who come to Turkey to work for the summer driving season. When I first got on the Labron shipwreck came up it was of the most exciting dive ever made to see the rows of ingots just lined up one after another and then another bronze a ship it only at 35 minutes is at 350 we can see almost 200 just like that on the sea. It was a spectacular movement of a ship that size. We're looking at a cargo of that may have been more than 10 tons. And when when when mixed with the 10 this would have been enough frost to supply an entire small army of helmets. REEVES all sorts of hundreds of hours. So we're looking at a ship. When it. Sank off liberal meant a tremendous

loss for some. Turkish archaeologist Kemal Pulok is project director for the undersea excavation. Is. Using. Now and. They're. Moving around down there you feel like a big fat sumo wrestler you know your feet are going to put your feet in the wrong place. Push up a little. It shouldn't be pushed out. It's pretty exciting. Just continue to chisel around the copper ingots you're working on on the first stroke and you're working on the last seven miles to get on the second row. And I suppose the. State. Is now where comprend 10 and these could not have been brought to the west without seafaring. And they were as important as lifelines in the bloodlines of raw materials from the east. Its oil to us today. All right. Civilizations took off from the bronze age that's when writing started appearing for the first time and that's when we started having colossal statues and monumental architecture

apparent for the first time. And one of the reasons why this was possible was because of the ME and the easy procurement of metals primarily due to seafaring. The items on the copper intent would have been strategic metals of its time. Because this is how the armies of the period were equipped. Shipwreck is a cliche but it's a time capsule It's a miniature one. You get a picture of life as it was happening in one day because that ship when it went down to everything that the sea bed was being used by the crew merchants captain and so forth on board passengers if there were any. And so we know what they were eating what they were trading with your tools weapons were like. It's it's a beautiful picture to bring the past alive. On the island of Cyprus 300 miles south east of the boom shipwreck

village blacksmith still beat Brawn's into tools and weapons. For tourists now. Reminder of a time when COMPRA from Cyprus fueled the economies of the Bronze Age to set up this big business. Cyprus is in contact with surrounding areas and exporting hundreds of Fingaz every year to places around the Mediterranean. Allison Todd is a British archaeologist who is finding evidence of the people who own the bronze lions. And so controlled the greatest source of wealth in the ancient world. Their tombs some strewn with wealth are now being found. They were the Saudis the Kuwaitis the oil sheiks of their day. These few and indeed young women had so much wealth of imported materials because they were members of an elite to control that's right. In central Cyprus that Trudeau's mountains had been mined for thousands of years.

They were one of the most important copper producing regions in the ancient world. Today the land is still cratered with the remains of Rongji Koreans from these Trudeau's mountains. A young trader built up a shipping company that he named after the mountains he loved. The Trudeau's line owner of a tanker. Moving. The life. The lifeblood of the economy. Stanley Caggiano son of the founder is now president of Trudeau's shipping. At one time his father was the single biggest independent ship owner in the world. You will find very very few Greek ship owners who have diversified into basing they reinvest. Back into shipping and that's what they've been doing for centuries. And generations. Some of the older guys say that we don't have blood flowing through our veins. We have the. Big. Ship and people love this we have an affection for this as a whole not

only from a business point of view. Most of them live by the sea. If you can combine business with pleasure. There is in business. Twenty years ago Greig's control the largest tanker fleet in the world. Almost 20 percent of all tankers afloat. Now overtaken by America and Japan. The Greek fleet of flags of convenience is still third largest we may say. We got worldwide. In the spot market brokers Steve Cohen is chasing charters for his Greek and other clients. He sees tankers like taxis cruising the sea lanes of the world looking for a fair warning. Earlier we put another piece of business on subjects with the South Koreans and Exxon we let them be subject to the South Koreans went to South Korea 240000 tons. That started about 4:00 this morning.

So it's been a long day. It's been a long day at night Max as well. But with oil futures looking healthy when these Iranian Shroder is close to a say how does it take to make a trade in the business. Phone line comes in. Pick up another line a call directly to the floor. I get a bit offer to lift a bit. I want to buy 25:21 sell an offer I can fill back Jil-Lee done within 15 to 20 seconds. He's got it. And it could represent 5000 barrels or could represent a million barrels. Just a few seconds to end days of frustrating delay for Lenny and her crew. Lennie's cargo has been sold her transit fees for the canal paid. As usual. Captain Tanaji is the last to know. Bye bye bye bye. This is good news.

So be fair. Very well thank you very much for the information. Yes. I'm going through the canal in the morning. Yes. And just about 2:00 in the morning as to what that place and what time the pilot will be reporting and all other relevant. But. Then. When. Channel. 6. Family at least. Half an hour before. Somewhere. I think it will be around 5:30. Lenny has entered the gateway to a canal connecting the Arabian Gulf with the Mediterranean.

It's a primary artery for Middle East oil and east west trade. The. Good captain is always a way to have those places in the water like the Suez Canal. If something happens in the open sea it can be a result much easier than if it happens in a confined area like the. Ones. In the canal. Many will be under the control of the Suez Canal Authority. Where somehow Hafez is one of those who will guide the tanker all the way north to port Syeed the Mediterranean and. Suez Canal. Egypt is one of the main income and it is considered the Egypt. State. It is not just a mistake. It is because of the Suez Canal. For.

15. Lenny is an awkward size too large to pass through the canal fully loaded. Too small to justify the long trip around Africa the Suez Canal has a draft of only 53 feet right now with her cargo of crude. Many draws 52 feet. A safety margin of only a foot. I'm hoping to get him by giving him my experience in the Suez Canal. I have to keep the ship safe. I'm looking to save the ship and the safety over the canal. Is a choke point on the ocean highway is a blockage in the narrow canal and quickly halts the flow of oil. Lenny was designed to sail a different sea line. Before shipping Bachar five years ago she was called the show Hamara shuttling oil from the Persian Gulf to Japan.

An island nation totally dependent on imported oil and other essential lifeblood. Islands island nations often cannot survive without what comes to them from across the sea. But. When the clock wants. To. Move the sea was like come on. Sometimes it's quiet and sometimes it's longer. Kazumi I used to live on Hutchie on a small island 300 miles off Japan's main island of Honshu. Such islands of show in miniature. What happens when the sea lanes are cut. The lifeblood shut off. Over 20 years ago the ships stopped coming. And I left in March of 1969 at the end the school year.

All those students left to start the springtime in April. The people fall later and within two months everyone was gone. Maintaining a population was no longer cost effective. Within a year a community whose ancestry stretched back a thousand years had vanished from the island. I remember playing baseball and soccer on the school grounds and going to the beach fishing. These teachers. Want teachers in the school and students. Sometimes. I had two or three classmates. Sometimes only one. Pal and I think it must have been a sad time leaving the place where they were born and they put their whole lives.

In Ireland whose sea lanes or catch can not survive. Other nations like Japan know this only too well. When his life is threatened. Japan. In the 1930s Japan invaded Manchuria to ensure iron and coal reserves it needed to continue industrial and military expansion. With the international pressure mounting an oil embargo threatened. Japan acted quickly to secure its oil supply. Invading Indonesia and securing the Gandolfi. As Operation Desert Storm showed securing or protecting lifeblood is a first priority in times of conflict. I. Had been under attack with two or three days and they dispersed the convoy.

At eight o'clock 21:00 on the 4th of July 1942 and 0 8 0 8 0 0 5 the next morning we got nailed by torpedo. I always felt you know these men are survivors of the 20th century's most ambitious and successful attempt to keep the lifeblood of an island nation. I always seem to pick a ship that was loaded with eight thousand tons I have plenty of bombs and it didn't bother to sleep in your life jacket or your clothes because if they ever got a hooker you are going to be atomized anyway. After I was captured I was in a truck transporting a British hauled off and sunk that distinction of being from both sides a little bit dubious distinction but this tension. In Maryland's Chesapeake Bay. The John W brown sails again. It

is one of the last remaining Liberty Ships of World War. One of thousands built to keep the Atlantic Audrie's open between Britain and America. The. Blockade was shutting them down. Britain was being starved into. The. Sinking. Ship was quick to build. Should. Develop. Ways to increase power production rate merchant ship so rapidly that in 1940 to build a million dead weight ton. By 1943 it was the largest shipbuilding campaign in the world. Mass production techniques learned from the car assembly lines unable to complete liberty ship to be built in less than a month.

There's never been anything like it in the history of the world before since I had no idea that there would be two thousand seven hundred ten identical ships. Bill you came back to the ship with a couple. Well Bell could very easily climb up on the wrong Liberty ship. They didn't have much of a fall by them. They were there when in fact as far as we're concerned the war because with all the ships they might have got over there. They certainly wouldn't have had anything to work with. Once they arrived we carried all of the suppliers to give them everything that they needed. Couldn't you go to an invasion beachhead any way without just literally scores of them all. And as far as the eye can see and it almost swung together. Obviously war is canal closures. Any disruption of the normal trading patterns would affect our markets and affect that quickly. I mean nobody likes war. Or

are problems. But that's you know that's the way it goes in our business. So the Dow Jones is low because of some catastrophe in the oil market. That's the way it works. Now we have enough bad years that we don't feel so badly. Yesterday we had a news bulletin that came out where the U.S. and French British were going to restrict air flights by a rock below the southern part of Iraq to protect the Shiites during that period of time it happened just about noon time. We rallied for 21:30 to 21 40 in less than five minutes. What does that represent a profits a loss. If you had a cargo of crude oil on the water which represents 500000 barrels of crude which is an average state of the size of cargoes during that period of time a 10 cent move and what less than five minutes that cargo became $50000 more profitable in that short period of time. With her cargo of oil bound for Europe when he was number six in line and a 20 ship

convoy heading north is one way traffic here and the canal too narrow for ships to pass. Is. Nobody is. And when we go through such places I guess that's why we're on the bridge it's not that the other officers want to handle it correctly but the absolute the responsibility lies with the captain. And. Three times this century the conflicts around this narrow waterway has sent the world economies into convulsions. Because it. Creates these problems. And. When Egypt nationalized the canal in 1956 Europe saw its oil supplies threatened

Britain and France invaded the Suez area in an attempt to retake the canal. Abdul Nasser Egypt's president was militarily weak but he knew he held the whip hand. Ships scuttled by Egyptian forces formed an insurmountable blockade stopping the world's oil supply dead. International pressure forced Britain and France to accept the humiliating withdrawal. Just a few years of peace. And it is going to happen again. The world was learning just how easy it was to choke off the oil arteries. If you remember before 1967 that was before the war. Three point five dollars. Each. After closing the Suez Canal which was this enormous difference between the

prices of one effected all the many factors all that transportation. Effected everybody. AROUND THE WORLD. Following the 1967 Six-Day War. The canal was shut down for eight years. The lifeblood of civilization still have to move. The Japanese were the first to begin building the next generation of tankers UL's CCPs or ultra large crude carriers big enough to make the long trip around Africa cost effective. They're still the leaders. Never again would Japan allow itself to be vulnerable. With its economic miracle dependent on imported oil. Japan's new supertankers

ensured a regular supply. Some of the ships that were built for. $100000000 require 50 to 60 thousand dollars a day. I'm going to zation just to keep them running. The rates now. Probably if you wait them out somewhere between 10 and 15000 a day which doesn't really pay for the ships. It seems like we're shaking the tree again in the market and you know some of the people that are hanging on by their fingers are falling out of the trades and companies are going. You know going belly up some of the owners. There are now too many tankers in the world. Many laid up in Norwegian Fjords their Greek bases. Empty. Silent waiting for the oil market to change again. But Lenny is still profitable. For the transit of the 115 miles of the canal has taken just 16 hours.

Today. The canal is calm guarded by international treaty. But with Islamic extremists active in Egypt conflict is seldom far away. In his time at West Ham Hafez his job is finished. Captain Thanasi once more has control of his ship the same boat that takes him away brings ships husband George from the Daucus a routine check on one of the five ships. He looks after. Captain Thanasi leaves in the course North-Western across the Aegean towards the Greek mainland and home. Get. Less than an hour out of the Suez Canal and Lenny is in trouble the left rather is veering the tankers sharply out of the shipping lane. Grounding

is imminent. Captain Thanasi orders full reverse but it's no use. At sea speed. Tankers the size of Lenni need five miles to come to a halt. Even a dead slow stopping can take half an hour. Within minutes the Lenny runs aground on a sandbar. What might so easily have happened in the Suez Canal. But didn't this now happens just outside. Well yeah but other than that we. Will. See. Circling Lenni the vultures of the shipping trade. Salvage talkings. With environmental and financial stakes so high. Captain Thanasi must consider every

option if need be. He has the right to sign over his cargo to the salvage company. They can take up to 10 percent millions of dollars for rescuing many from a sandbar. Yet. It's. Not because of seen. The Greeks have always been a seafaring people but they are good officers. It may seem a good place to go but I think that some of the best officers in the world. Know this is critical because it's a great officer in control of the the officer who must do the work. Yes. A cargo worth 40 million dollars hangs in the balance. It's future dependent on captains and I see skill and experience. Grounding is a nightmare of the tanker industry its effects are potentially catastrophic. When Torrey Canyon spilled one hundred nineteen thousand tons of crude into the English

Channel in 1967. It was the worst pollution disaster in history. Eleven years later it was topped. When I'm a go Cuddy's ran aground and a quarter of a million tons of Iranian crude washed ashore on the French coast. As tankers get bigger. Accidents can grow more disastrous. In 1993 the Breyers rounding off Scotland reinforced calls for tougher controls on how the lifeblood of the world is transported across its ocean. But Lenny won't become another statistic. Captain Thanasi uses the engines to rock your ship back and forth stirring up tons of sand from the sea bed. After three difficult hours. Many pools freedom. Freedom. Of it. Back. Up. The. I go. With. I think it. Is. On. The way to get the.

Best of me. We have that kind of each other. Yes it is. This happened yesterday. This doesn't happen often on a ship it is just as unlikely for the steering wheel gets the also visco. Of course and this is what did the luck factor figures into the hypothesis the other could have gotten stuck. Today to day while with out in the open sea nothing happened to it. In daylight. Captain said Ossy orders a complete check of tank integrity to ensure that no damage resulted when Lenny ran aground. Of course there was no damage yesterday but the running down does not go up enough and. Only 3 percent of tanker accidents caused serious oil spills. But these

accidents account for a sizeable percentage of all oil pollution in the oceans. Grounding is almost always the cause we are trying our best to provide the. Quality service which is safe and incident free. And even when we fail sometimes we fail because this is life. I mean. Anything can go wrong in any business at any time because humans are involved. People make mistakes and fortunately. Not. I'll. Go. Too. Many years nearly. Passing the islands where seafaring began so many thousand years. Before. Thousands of years study of like Greece has been tied to the

sea and the sea creatures who would defy any of us in seamanship out of necessity. How else could they import that they put into the sea because it was a means of survival that. You have. To defend the vital trade routes. The Greeks developed the most effective and deadly fighting ship of its age. The trireme. Without the life that flowed to them across the Aegean Sea Athenian civilization and democracy couldn't have trial. Yes they know. Ben says most other Greek cities obtained a majority of its food supply by importing grain. Historian Ana removed points out that this vulnerability was the cause Athens ultimate downfall in order to do this. They had to control one of the three large grain producing areas

either in the Black Sea. Sicily Orage. Egypt would be the breadbasket of Europe for the next millennium. In the fifth century B.C.. Athens tried to take control in Egypt in Sicily. Like other nations since Athens believed that must control the source of its lifeblood. As well as the sea lanes along which it flowed. The defense of the nation and the security of their grain supply. These two key issues were discussed 12 times a year in assembly which illustrates how important they were to Athens

Athens expansionist rule was challenged by Sparta its chief rival and other cities states and counties. Forty five hundred years ago these quiet waters saw an epic struggle for power and lifeblood in the Ancient World. The party and its allies were able to destroy the entire Athenian Navy. One hundred and eight ships. After that the outcome was inevitable. They made sense to Athens and Athens was forced to surrender. Athens will never again be the great power it was in the fifth century. Athens collapsed because its sea lanes were cut. Its food supply halted. Captain Synopsys ancestors learned a bitter lesson. If nations are to survive their lifeblood blood must be kept flowing. At any cost. A cargo of oil often changes hands several times.

Many could have been sent to Italy even North America. Often not knowing her destination till the last moment. This time the Greeks on board are lucky. Portuguese Ostrow Piru. Just an hour away from Athens. Captain if an Aussie has one final Judy on this voyage supervising the unloading of his cargo as it's transferred to tank farms on shore. From there it will be turned into the energy that runs the modern world. For captains and Canarsie and his officers. This land fall offers a rare chance to visit home and see families long separations are always part of a sailor's life.

If you are going to be in a relationship with a woman you need to find someone who has as strong a character as possible. You need someone who is capable of living alone someone who will be able to manage. Otherwise things are difficult. The wives and families will stay aboard Lenny tonight if he's lucky. Captain Tennessee may have up to a week before Leonie's Iranian charter is send the ship off again. Lennie's cargo is sufficient to supply the total oil needs of a city the size of Athens for nearly two. Across the ocean in New York oil traders and ships brokers work around the clock to make sure this flow of life blood remains interrupted.

What is probably going to get the will get just two large borders which are VLCC super ships. Know one is frx on the ready golf lesson. The other one is the CBC to go to Taiwan. So we're chasing it for all these waters like as we speak. So this is a good morning. In parki Greece. Lenny is ready to sail again back through the Suez Canal through Krog island for another cargo of oil. Next time it may be different buyers and sellers. But the purpose is always the same to keep the lifeblood of the world. Flowing. To. You.

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