Here is the ESSO DALRIADA in the Gulf of Suez at Ain Sukhna, discharging 280,000 tons of crude oil from Kharg in Iran in 1978, it goes through an underwater pipeline to the shore then pumped acrsoss the Egyptian desert, the SUMED Line, to a port near Alexandria to be transhipped in another tanker to Europe, that saves the ship going round the Cape of Good Hope saving six weeks at sea and also 8 weeks on the return to the Gulf empty.
I took the photo from the wheel house.
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