Port Everglades hosts its largest fuel tanker yet


News from Panama / Tuesday, July 9th, 2013

Now that is a lot of Av Gas

July 8, 2013|By Doreen Hemlock, SunSentinel

It’s a behemoth among fuel tankers: 813 feet long, 131 feet wide and weighing 62,201 gross-registered tons just for the ship itself, without counting the fuel inside.

When the Ellie Lady visited Port Everglades last weekend, it ranked as the largest tanker ever at the Broward County seaport.

The tanker carried about 8.2 million gallons of jet fuel to the port to be used at the four international airports in Fort Lauderdale, Miami, West Palm Beach and Fort Myers.