The Tanker Handbook

The textbook on tanker operations provides knowledge and skills to improve work safety and enhance seafarers' awareness of their social responsibility to the marine environment. It covers all aspects of tanker operations with clear explanations, graphics, and diagrams, and is essential for students and maritime colleges. Tanker companies will also find it valuable as a reference book.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 160 pages
Publication date: 30 April 2025
Publisher: Whittles Publishing

Tanker operations are essential for the safe and efficient transportation of oil and other hazardous materials. This textbook on tanker operations has been written to provide the knowledge and skills required to improve work safety and enhance a seafarer's awareness of their social responsibility to the marine environment. It covers all the aspects of tanker operations with lucid explanations using enhanced graphics and diagrams and is bound to be of immense value for those keen to serve on board an oil tanker as a cargo officer. The textbook complies with the learning objectives of the International Maritime Organization's (IMO) Advanced Oil Tanker model course (2-3-2) and is easy to read and understand. It is supported by several photos, enhanced graphics, links to video sites, tables, and examples of tanker calculations. It will be indispensable reading for students who wish to pursue a career at sea and serve on tankers as officers. It will also be essential for maritime colleges for use as teaching material for their tanker courses and as a reference book. Tanker companies will also find it of great value where it can be kept on board their vessel/s as a handy reference.

Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781849955614