1.   For the first tanker in line, the fit was too tight.

2.   This week, the first NATO tankers began flying from Hungary, and attack aircraft will soon use its air bases for their sorties.

3.   First tanker with Iraqi oil departs.

4.   Meanwhile at Dabhol, managers are moving to the next phase, training workers to man tug boats to guide that first LNG tanker into port.

5.   The first tanker carrying Iraqi oil bought by Russian companies left a Turkish port for Rotterdam on Friday, Interfax reported.

6.   The viscous crude will trickle slowly along the pipe and reach Novorossiisk only at the end of June, when the first tanker will be loaded.

7.   The first tanker, al-Khazna, was received in August and early this month it delivered its first gas shipment to the Japanese firm.