Ship trackers said on Thursday that two more tankers were able to pass through the Strait of Hormuz with their transponders turned off. One ship is headed for India, while the other is bound for China.
The ship headed for India is the Very Large Crude Carrier (VLCC) Nissos Keros, flagged to the Marshall Islands and chartered by Swiss-based trading company Vitol.
The ship is carrying 1.8 million barrels of crude oil from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and is headed for India’s port of Visakhapatnam, which is the location of a refinery owned by Hindustan Petroleum, a subsidiary of India’s state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation.
The other ship is a liquefied natural gas (LNG) tanker called Hua Lin Wan, sailing under the Chinese flag and operated by China’s state-owned COSCO shipping corporation. The tanker is carrying a cargo of naphtha from Kuwait, and is scheduled to arrive at China’s port of Huizhou in about two weeks.
So that means they snuck past Iran's toll-check, but not through the US? Because the US only cares about ships that go to or from Iranian ports, correct?
Ship trackers said on Thursday that two more tankers were able to pass through the Strait of Hormuz with their transponders turned off. One ship is headed for India, while the other is bound for China.
The ship headed for India is the Very Large Crude Carrier (VLCC) Nissos Keros, flagged to the Marshall Islands and chartered by Swiss-based trading company Vitol.
The ship is carrying 1.8 million barrels of crude oil from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and is headed for India’s port of Visakhapatnam, which is the location of a refinery owned by Hindustan Petroleum, a subsidiary of India’s state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation.
The other ship is a liquefied natural gas (LNG) tanker called Hua Lin Wan, sailing under the Chinese flag and operated by China’s state-owned COSCO shipping corporation. The tanker is carrying a cargo of naphtha from Kuwait, and is scheduled to arrive at China’s port of Huizhou in about two weeks.
You need a new username....there is no dumb in anything you just related 😂 how did you figure all that out?!
So that means they snuck past Iran's toll-check, but not through the US? Because the US only cares about ships that go to or from Iranian ports, correct?