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Exclusive: Oil tankers turn away from Venezuela as more sanctions loom

Exclusive: Oil tankers turn away from Venezuela as more sanctions loom

By , MEXICO CITY/LONDON (Reuters) - Oil tankers that were sailing toward Venezuela have turned around and others have left the country’s waters as the United States considers blacklisting dozens of ships for transporting Venezuelan oil, according to shipping data and industry sources.The threat of tighter sanctions is already disrupting the global shipping market. Chinese oil firms are considering whether to decline to charter any tanker that has visited Venezuela in the past year, no matter where the ship is now or for what voyage, four shipping sources told Reuters on Tuesday.Washington...

June 9, 2020
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UK-flagged tanker repulses pirate attack in Gulf of Aden, ship manager says

UK-flagged tanker repulses pirate attack in Gulf of Aden, ship manager says

By , DUBAI/LONDON (Reuters) - Armed pirates attacked a British-flagged chemical tanker in the Gulf of Aden on Sunday but were repulsed, the ship’s manager Stolt Tankers said.The pirates approached the Stolt Apal in two speedboats some 75 nautical miles off Yemen, it said, in one of the most important trade routes for oil heading from the Middle East to Europe.“After multiple warning shots were fired by the armed guard team aboard Stolt Apal, the skiffs opened fire on the ship. The armed guard team returned fire, disabling one skiff and ending the pursuit,” a company spokesman told Reuters...

May 17, 2020
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U.S. sells illicit Iranian fuel, another seized cargo on the way

U.S. sells illicit Iranian fuel, another seized cargo on the way

By , WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has sold more than a million barrels of Iranian fuel seized under its sanctions program last year, a Department of Justice official said, as another ship with intercepted Iranian crude oil sails to a U.S. port.The seizures are part of Washington’s tough economic sanctions on Tehran imposed over its nuclear program and the U.S. designation of a number of Iranian groups as terrorists, continuing decades of rancor between the two nations. Iran rejects U.S. accusations of wrongdoing.In a new approach last year, the administration of former U.S....

February 10, 2021
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Exclusive: U.S. turns screws on maritime industry to cut off Venezuela's oil

Exclusive: U.S. turns screws on maritime industry to cut off Venezuela's oil

By , LONDON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Several companies that certify vessels are seaworthy and ship insurers have withdrawn services to tankers involved in the Venezuelan oil trade as the United States targets the maritime industry to tighten sanctions on the Latin American country.U.S. sanctions have driven Venezuela’s oil exports to their lowest levels in nearly 80 years, starving President Nicolas Maduro’s socialist government of its main source of revenue and leaving authorities short of cash for essential imports such as food and medicine.The sanctions are part of U.S. efforts to weaken...

July 13, 2020
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Ocean shipping shrinks as pandemic pummels retailers

Ocean shipping shrinks as pandemic pummels retailers

By , , LONDON/LOS ANGELES/MADRID (Reuters) - The $1 trillion container shipping industry is in a slowdown. Literally.Some shipping lines, whose retail customers are being hammered by the coronavirus pandemic, are reducing sailing speeds and taking longer routes around Africa, avoiding Suez canal passage fees, according to the companies and ship-tracking specialists.The new tactics not only save on costs, but also help adapt to the needs of cash-crunched retailers - among their biggest customers - who are stuck with huge inventory surpluses thanks to COVID-19 store closures and a collapse in...

June 5, 2020
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