By Wu Xiaoyun

At 4 am 18 July, dragged by 9 large-horsepower tugs and accompanied by 6 coastal patrol vessels of maritime departments of ‘Tong, Chang, Tai’ three places, the world’s largest tonnage, largest oil storage capacity FPSO ( Floating Production Storage and Offloading ship ) ‘SEPETIBA’ built by China Merchants Heavy Industries (Jiangsu) Co., Ltd. left the port slowly, and started its trip in the Yangtze River. (photo above by Xu Congjun). It is learnt that the ship is 341.31 m long, 85.5 m high, 86 m wide. The draft is 6.8 m. The total length of the tub boat team is 634 m, which breaks the record of shipping history of the Yangtze River.

It is learnt that ‘SEPETIBA’ team passed Yangtze River buoy No.1 downstream at about 9 am on 18 morning, and went for Tianjin harbour.