The biggest oil tanker ever built in Shanghai begins its maiden voyage yesterday, putting the city’s Changxing Island shipyard on course to become the world’s top shipbuilder. The 297,000-deadweight-ton vessel, named the Yangtze Pearl, is the first of several“very large crude carriers”to be delivered by the Shanghai Jiangnan-Changxing Shipbuilding Co. The new tanker is 333 meters long.—Shanghai Daily