A bunker ship, or bunker barge, operates like a floating gas station, bringing the fuel to the cruise ship and transferring it. In other words, a bunker barge is the high seas equivalent of a KC ...

(Lee Whitaker/Getty Images) A cargo ship hit a tanker carrying jet fuel for the U.S. military off eastern England on Monday, setting both vessels ablaze and sending fuel pouring into the North Sea.

LONDON (AP) — A cargo ship hit a tanker carrying jet fuel for the U.S. military off eastern England on Monday, setting both vessels ablaze and sending fuel pouring into the North Sea.