#SkillfulEntrance - Measuring nearly 300 foot in length and over 50 foot in breadth, the Galway Fisher is one large tanker.
The Mail Online features an aerial time-lapse capturing the skill of a sea captain to negotiate the ship through a narrow port in Ireland.
The video created by Autonomous Aerials Ireland, shows the red (decked-painted) tanker making light work of the extremely narrow mouth of the port of Galway, which only give the boat a five foot leeway on either side.
Filmmaker James, a nautical enthusiast, said: 'I take great joy in watching the comings and goings of the ships from Galway Harbour.
'Being a keen photographer I try to capture photographs and video whenever possible of ships coming in and out. The tanker visits Galway about twice a week, so this video did not capture a unique moment.
'More an interesting view of challenge that the harbour and its pilots face each day. For more on this including photo sequence of ships arrival, click here.
Afloat adds that the 4,967dwt products tanker sails to Galway from Cork Harbour from where she loads at the Whitegate Oil Refinery. The 1997 Chinese built tanker is operated by James Fisher Everard based in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria.
A fleetmate of the UK flagged tanker that also runs on the west coast of Ireland trade is Forth Fisher which featured on Afloat's Snapshot of Cork Dockyard.
As you can clearly see from the footage of Galway Port, the tight confines of the mid-west harbour dictate the size of ships due to the dimensions of the basin lock leading to the Dun Aengus Dock.
Increasingly larger sized-sized ships have led to Galway Harbour Company to propose a new outer port so to enable much larger cargoships vessels to dock in deeper water. The new outer port would also permit considerably larger cruiseships to dock directly as currently such ships have to anchor off Mutton Island in Galway Bay.
As previously reported on Afloat.ie a planning decision by An Bórd Pleanála on the proposed port expansion has been pushed back by several weeks.
In the meantime, the port only has one commercial operator that uses an outer berth, that been Lasta Mara Teo's albeit very small freightship, Blath na Mara that serves the Aran Islands.
The coastal cargsoship is seen in the video footage to the left of the Dun Aengus Pier, where to the right is the lock chamber where Galway Fisher edged past a berthed cargoship.
