Last week, Associated Press reported, “The U.S. has quietly seized the cargo of two tankers suspected of transporting Iranian oil as part of an elaborate sanctions-busting scheme involving forged documents and the repainting of a ship’s deck to cloak illegal shipments.”Last month, court filings exposed the Biden Administration's seizures, they said.
“The order to build an Aframax tanker to the Iranian Shipbuilding and Offshore Industries Complex (IZOICO) in Bandar Abbas is on the agenda and its contract will be signed soon,” the company said in a statement widely reported in the Iranian media.
The CEO of the National Iranian Tanker Company was quoted as saying, "This Aframax tanker, which is environmentally friendly and is designed and built according to the latest standards of the International Maritime Organization (IMO), will comply with phase three of the Energy Efficiency Design Index (EEDI)."
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