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— innovative offshore or outport terminals to accommodate super- 

 tankers, with such individual terminals to be capable of supplying 

 their immediate region or other harbor regions by pipeline, barge, 

 or small tanker (Figure VIII-3) ; 



— concentration of international containership operations in a few 

 major load center ports on each ocean coast ; and 



— concentration of major ocean barge-carrying ship operations in a few 

 load center ports. 



Figure WlU-3—The world's largest ship, the 312,000 DWT SS UNIVERSE IRE- 

 LAND, berthed at the world's newest offshore oil loading facility ten miles off the 

 coast of Kuwait. The facility is connected to shore by a 48-inch crude petroleum 

 submarine pipeline and a 20-inch bunker fuel oil submarine line. 



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