Word: mostert
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...long as the Empire State Building is tall, the ships in the new generation of supertankers are nothing if not impressive. But are they safe? Not according to Nöel Mostert, a South African-born journalist. In his 1974 best-seller Supership, Mostert warned that these brobdingnagian tankers were accidents looking for places where they could happen. Nothing since then has altered his gloomy prediction. At his new home in Tangier, Mostert told TIME last week...
...Supership, the recent bestseller on the profits and perils of ever bigger tankers, Author Noël Mostert raises the harrowing prospect of narrow sea lanes, al ready crowded with vessels of 200,000 tons and more, soon to be joined by monsters capable of carrying as much as 1 million tons of oil. Yet suddenly this prospect is fading. Dozens of supertankers are idle, and others are being laid up almost daily. Last week four 370,000-ton tankers on order for construction at Norwegian shipyards were withdrawn, bringing that nation's cancellation total to 26. For many...
...Supership, Mostert...
...Supership, Mostert...
SUPERSHIP by Noel Mostert. Writing like a skilled novelist, the author documents the costs and dangers of the oil tankers that grew out of Middle East tension and the energy crisis...