%0 Journal Article %T Characteristics of the modern shuttle tankers used for exploitation of carbohydrate deposits in the Northern Caspian Sea %A Petrov Maksim Petrovich %A Lubenko Vladimir Nickolayevich %J Vestnik of Astrakhan State Technical University. Series: Marine Engineering and Technologies %D 2010 %I Astrakhan State Technical University %X The main characteristics of the modern tankers used for exploitation in the Northern Caspian Sea are observed. The dependences of the basic tankers¡¯ parameters in format X = f (DW) on deadweight capacity are fixed. The approxi-mate dependences which allow to calculate the main characteristics of the Northern Caspian Sea tankers in the first approximation at early stage of designing are obtained. %K the main characteristics of the tankers %K ship design %K shuttle tanker %K oil transportation %K mathematical modeling. %U http://astu.org/content/userimages/file/sea_2_2010/08.pdf