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The Aframax tanker Gerd Knutsen at the wharf in Brest.

The Aframax tanker Torben Spirit at anchor in the outer anchorage at Singapore.

An Aframax ship is an oil tanker with capacity between 80,000 metric tons of deadweight (DWT) and 120,000 DWT. Aframax class tankers are largely used in the basins of the Black Sea, the North Sea, the Caribbean Sea, the China Sea and the Mediterranean. Non-OPEC exporting countries may require the use of Aframax tankers because the harbors and canals through which these countries export their oil are too small to accommodate very-large crude carriers (VLCC) and ultra-large crude carriers (ULCCs). The term is based on the Average Freight Rate Assessment (AFRA) tanker rate system.

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v • d • e Modern merchant vessels Dry cargo: Bulk carrier · Container ship · Hopper barge · Reefer ship · RORO ship · Heavy lift ship · Lighter aboard ship · Tankers: Oil tanker · Chemical tanker · LNG carrier · Coaster · FPSO unit Passenger: Cruise ship · Cruiseferry · Ferry · Ocean liner Support: Dive support · Fireboat · Supply ship · Tender · Tugboat Other: Cable layer · Crane vessel · Drillship · Dredger · Fishing vessel · Icebreaker · Merchant submarine · Research vessel · Semi-submersible Sizes, smallest to largest: Handysize · Handymax · Panamax · Aframax · Suezmax · Capesize · VLCC · ULCC

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