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GV PAN Tanker
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CU Sign "Globtik Tokyo London" ZOOM OUT TO GV Tanker
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CU Helm and rudder
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GTV & GV Deckk (2 shots)
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GV Radar tower TILT DOWN TO EXTERIOR Bridge room
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SCU Equipment in bridge (4 shots)
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CU Sign "radioroom" and MV Equipment (3 shots)
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CU Sign & SV Equipment and "control room" (4 shots)
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CU & MV PAN Officers bar (2 shots)
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AV Tanker steaming out (3 shots)
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Initials ESP/1835 ESP/1852



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Background: Another in the rapidly growing generation of super-tankers set sail on her maiden voyage from a Japanese shipyard on Wednesday (February 21).

The vessel is the "Globtik Tokyo" and, at 483,000 tons it is the world's largest oil tanker.

Getting under way from the Kure shipyard where her massive, oil-carrying bulk was put together, she represents a twenty-story building in height, with an overall length (379 metres) that exceeds the height of the Eiffel Tower (301 metres), and a deck area which could accommodate two-and-a-half football fields or 79 tennis courts.

The "Globtik Tokyo", however, will be the world's largest tanker for a limited period only. Already, in the same shipyard that built her, the Keel has been laid for another giant. That one will eventually make her maiden voyage as a 500,000-tonner.

SYNOPSIS: From a Japanese shipyard on Wednesday, another in the rapidly-growing generation of super-tankers was ready to set sail. The vessel is the "Globtik Tokyo", which at four-hundred-and-eighty-three-thousand tons, is the world's largest.

The rudder weighs two hundred and fifty tons, and the deck area can accommodate seventy-nine tennis courts.

She's equivalent to a twenty-storey building in height, and her length is greater than the height of the Eiffel Tower.

Despite its massive size, the "Globtik Tokyo" carries a crew of only fifty. Virtually every aspect of this tanker this automated... the captain and other officers oversee the whole operation through television sets and other electronic instruments.

The "Globtik Tokyo" was built by the Kure shipyard in Japan. Its cost of twenty-one million sterling was financed by a joint Anglo-Japanese venture.

It is the world's largest vessel, but for a limited period only. Already, in the same shipyard which built her, the keel has been laid for another giant. And that one will eventually make her maiden voyage as a five-hundred-thousand-tonner.