tanker
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A report from the Wall Street Journal that the U.S. is considering further tanker seizures, ahead of a visit to Washington from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, stirred those tensions.
From MarketWatch
The U.S. has threatened to seize more rogue tankers moving the country’s crude exports.
On 26 January, staff in an office in Mumbai received an urgent e-mail from a crew member aboard a tanker off the coast of Singapore.
From BBC
The tankers, which make up the so-called shadow fleet, help transport illicit oil from numerous sanctioned countries to China and other buyers.
Terminals in Maryland and Georgia that typically export LNG unloaded tankers from Trinidad and Tobago and fed the fuel into the U.S. gas grid in late January, according to financial-data provider LSEG.
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