0 a very large ship, that transports especially oil --
1 a very large ship for transporting oil: --
an oil supertanker
It is like a supertanker—it has to be slowed down, which we have done, and then turned.
The supertanker may prove extremely slow to turn round.
It is the ultimate supertanker to turn around, if indeed it can be reversed; perhaps it can only be slowed.
My noble friend probably knows that the so-called supertankers draw 14 metres, or thereabouts.
What an achievement: he will have turned his supertanker 360 deg, and gone absolutely nowhere in two years.
Even he should be able to turn a supertanker round in less than five years.
The transport system is like a supertanker and it cannot do a pirouette.
I take the point about whether someone could obtain an exemption certificate for a car ferry and then pilot a supertanker.
