Second only to the 310.8 million dwt VLCC Huashan built by Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding Company for Singapore Ocean Tanker Co., Ltd.
Flying the Liberian flag when robbed. The tanker has 25 employees from Croatia, Britain, the Philippines, Poland and Saudi Arabia.
The tanker is 330 meters long, with a load of 310.8 million tons, and can carry up to 2 million barrels of crude oil. This is by far the largest ship hijacked by Somali pirates.
Captain Nathan Christensen, a spokesman for the Fifth Fleet, described the tanker as similar in length to the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier of the United States and three times as heavy as the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier.