Vessel’s name

Number/Dwt/tanker/

delivery or order date

Shipyard

Remarks

Olympic Games

1-/1950

Bethlehem, Baltimore

The 1st built tanker (out of 6) in USA

2 of 19,000 t/1950

Bethlehem, Baltimore, USA

4 of 28,000 dwt/1950

Bethlehem, Baltimore, USA

To catch-up in size with the 4 tankers built for Texaco. Amortizable in 5 years!

2 of 46,000 dwt/ordered 1958

Bethlehem, Baltimore, USA

1 of 46,000 dwt/ordered 1958

Chester

4 of 46,000 - 47,000 dwt/1963

Quincy yard, USA

3 tankers

France

2 refrigerated ships

Belgium

2 of 65,000 dwt/late 1957/1963-64

Howaldtswerke

3 of 65,000/dwt

Mitsubishi, Japan

O turned to the revived Japanese shipbuilding, offering generous credit & lower cost!

3 of 82,000 dwt

Ishikawajima Harima, Japan

2 of 100,000 t/1965

France

4 of 27,000 dwt bulk/1965

Nippon

Bulkers followed tankers in the same course in achieving economies of scale, but to a much lesser range

1 VLCC/1966

Japan

7 of >200,000 end 1968

Japan

4 of 220,000 end 1968

France

9 VLCC30 1970s/260-273,000 dwt

Japan, France, UK

1st VLCC tanker

2 VLCC of 400,000 dwt

France

Numbers 83 & 84

Total

~7m

Excluding refrigerated ships