TI Europe
CMB.TECH (Euronav) · Tanker · In service · built by Hanwha Ocean (DSME)
TI Europe is the largest ship in active trade by deadweight: 441,893 tonnes, one of the four TI-class giants of 2002–03 and one of only two still sailing.
Derived metrics
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How big is it, really?
The TI Europe's length overall, against things you already know the size of.
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One TI Europe = 1.41 Titanics · 3.6 football pitches · 15 blue whales · 5.0 Boeing 747-8s laid end to end.
The numbers
| Length overall | 380 m |
|---|---|
| Beam | 68 m |
| Deadweight | 441,893 t |
| Gross tonnage | 234,006 GT |
| Draft (fully laden) | 24.5 m |
| Cargo capacity | ≈3.2 million barrels |
| Delivered | 2002 (as Hellespont Tara) |
| Flag | Belgium |
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Last verified: 2026-07-15 · Spot an error? business@luck.fyi
What makes it different
The TI class was a deliberate anachronism: in 2002, three decades after the ULCC era ended in lay-ups and early scrappings, Greece's Hellespont group ordered four 441,000-tonners from DSME — the first ultra-large crude carriers built in a generation, and the largest double-hulled ships ever constructed.
TI Europe, delivered as Hellespont Tara, carries around 3.2 million barrels of crude — a day and a half of the entire United Kingdom's consumption in one hull. Since Knock Nevis (the former Seawise Giant) went to the breakers in 2010, she and her sister TI Oceania have been the largest ships afloat by deadweight.
Their careers have alternated between trading and floating storage, parked full of oil whenever the market pays more for waiting than for moving — including famously through the 2020 price collapse. Two of the four sisters were converted permanently to storage off Qatar; Europe and Oceania remain the last true ULCCs at sea.
The TI Europe line
TI class
Who operates the TI Europe
All 1 operator of record, verified 2026-07-15. Figures marked ≈ are approximate.
CMBCMB.TECH (Euronav)Owned within the Euronav fleet, now CMB.TECH after the 2024 merger; trades and stores crude worldwide.1✓→