The tanker identifying itself as Freesia I is likely to be a zombie vessel, meaning it is in fact another tanker assuming the identity of a dismantled ship.
Indian embassy in Tehran is coordinating with authorities to facilitate the return of Indian crew on the vessel seized last Friday in the Gulf of Oman, it is learnt.
The Navy’s P8I reconnaissance aircraft is also assisting the operation. The tanker was heading to the Yemeni port of Aden and capsized off Oman’s major industrial port of Duqm.
Age norms will assist in ensuring gradual phasing out of fossil fuel ships and ushering of alternate/low carbon energy efficient ships, the order read.
Saudi & other producers are keeping millions of oil barrels off the market, leaving supertankers unemployed and likely to be junked on the beaches India, Pakistan & Bangladesh.
Tanker chartered by IOC was transporting 2 million barrels of Kuwaiti crude to Paradip refinery when there was fire in engine room 65 km east of Sri Lanka.
Europe has been involved, in some way, in most of the weird shipping movements. Tracking data show many oil tankers are currently floating off the coasts of UK, UAE & West Africa.
At 2nd such summit in Punjab for top investors organised by AAP since it came to power in Punjab, Lakshmi Mittal announced his Bathinda refinery has increased production of LPG by 3,000 tonnes/day.
The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.
Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.
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