TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT

Submitted by:

Muhammad Qasim
BCM05111014
B.Com- 6th Semester

Submitted To:
Sir Qaisar fareed
Date:
12-11-2012

THE UNIVERSITY OF LAHORE

Department of Commerce

MONT
The Worlds Largest Oil Tanker

Finally named Mont by its new Indian owners from 2009 until 2010. You can see on
Youtube video of workers aboard this ship, she truly was the King of the seas...
She was the worlds largest ship ever to sail the seas and had been renamed a fair few
times as too:

2009 - 2010.........Mont
2004 - 2009.........Nock Nevis
1991 - 2004..........Jahre Viking
1989 - 1991..........Happy Giant
1979 - 1989........Seawise Giant

OVERVIEW

The Mont was the worlds largest ship at 1504 feet long (over 1/4 of a mile) and 226 feet wide.

The Mont, a ship so huge that when fully laden she can not pass through the 32 mile wide
English channel because it cannot man oeuvre, as travelling in a straight line is its best forte.
When fully laden, she sits 24.5 meters deep in the sea, a depth great enough to stop her from
accessing most of the worlds major ports. The photo below is of her when she was the Jahre
Viking and she is loaded to full capacity with oil, hence she sits low in the water.

Making big waves, the 'Jahre Viking' as she was know then, at full steam ahead !

Specific Details
When fully laden with the capacity of 4,240,865 barrels of oil the Mont has a displacement of
825,614 GLW (Gross Laden Weight) metric tons. It has an un-laden weight is 564,763 tons.
The hold could swallow St Pauls cathedral four times over. It has a crew of 35 to 40, which
means it only needs two lifeboats. Taking 5.5 miles to stop with a turning circle of over 2
miles. When this ship docks into its port it is done so very slowly as mistakes cannot easily be
rectified when there is so much weight on the move.
The cargo of oil she normally carries is worth $122 million ! separated from the sea by just
3.5cm's of steel plate ! It is mainly crewed by Indian Officers and Filipino seamen. In
comparison to other ships, the Mont rules the waves !

The chart above proves that amongst the worlds largest ships The Mont is the true king of the seas.

History
In the course of her life the Mont has changed hands many times. It was launched in Japan at
Sumitomo Heavy Industries Yard at Opera in 1979 with the hull number of 1016. She was
christened Sea wise Giant.
After three years of use the owner who was a Greek shipping magnate went bankrupt and sold
her to another Shipping magnate, C.Y Tung Industries. But before taking delivery however, her
new owner ordered that the length be increased.

Already massive at 480,000 tonnes, he ordered that her length be increased several more metres
to add another 87,000 tons to her load-carrying capacity to make her, at 825,614 GLW tons, the
largest ship ever be built and sail the seas.
Two years later, in 1981, she was finally ready to be put to sea still under the name of the
Seawise Giant. At this time though the two major oil-producing states of Iran and Iraq were at
war. And any ship carrying Iranian or Arab oil, in effect every tanker using the Persian Gulf, the
source of most of the worlds oil, was seen as a legitimate military target by Iraq.

The Super tanker 'Seawise Giant' sailed without hassle in the Gulf Of Mexico, sometimes it even
doubled as a storage facility. However she was soon needed in the Persian Gulf to ply
her trade as a transporter of much needed oil. This however put the ship into danger.
It was not long before the ship was sighted and subsequently attacked. While sailing the Hormuz
Straits in 1986, she was targeted by Iraqi jets, who fired Exocet missiles into her hull. The Sea
Wise Giant never had a chance, she erupted into flame as the oil onboard ignited with the
explosion.

Extensively damaged, she sank in the very shallow waters off Irans Kharg Island. And it was
there that she stayed for the remainder of the war. She might have sat indefinitely had it not been
for the fact that she was still worth a lot of money even in the damaged state she was in.
The main factor in her salvage and repair was the fact that she could still float, had she sunk in
deeper waters then she would most probably still be at the bottom of the sea today as it would
have been next to impossible to have brought her to the surface.

In 1989 she was sold to the company of Norman International in Norway for $35 million. Repair
work began in 1990 in Keppel shipyard in Singapore where 3,700 tons of damaged steel was
replaced. This repair work was still infinitely cheaper than building another ship of the same
size.

Surprisingly she was not utilized much by Norman International and was again sold on this time
to Jorden Jahre for a sum of $39 Million. It was at this stage that the ship was renamed Jahre
Viking after its new owner.
The vessel was then given to the worlds largest and best ship company, Wallem ShipManagement from Hong Kong for upgrading and refurbishment. After final completion, she was

ready to sail. And in 1991, she loaded her first cargo of 4 million barrels of crude oil at Juaymah,
Saudi Arabia. Today, she runs regular trips between the Middle East and the US.
The Mont has received extensive media coverage in its lifetime and more recently it was one of
the topics that BBC TV presenter Jeremy Clarkson covered in a program called Extreme
Machines the ship was then known as The Jahre Vikingof course.

In March 2004, Jahre Viking was sent by its new owner, First Olsen Tankers, to the Dubai dry docks to be
refitted as a floating storage and offloading unit. Under the new name of Knock Nevis, she began
operating at the Al Shaheen oilfield in waters of Qatar

The true size of this ship can be a little better appreciated as she sits in the docks. Sadly the Mont
was finally sailed to India and scrapped in 2010, her 36 ton Anchor however, was preserved and
sent to the Hong Kong maritime museum for public display.