{"id":9952,"date":"2012-04-15T16:14:23","date_gmt":"2012-04-15T14:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/04\/tanker-of-syrian-oil-drops-anchor-off-iran\/"},"modified":"2012-04-15T16:14:23","modified_gmt":"2012-04-15T14:14:23","slug":"tanker-of-syrian-oil-drops-anchor-off-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/tanker-of-syrian-oil-drops-anchor-off-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanker of Syrian oil drops anchor off Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Iranian VLCC MT Nabi heading towards Suez<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Another Iran VLCC anchored off South Africa for a month<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Daniel Fineren<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>DUBAI, April 15 (Reuters) &#8211; The MT Tour tanker carrying<br \/>\nSyrian crude oil dropped anchor in the Strait of Hormuz near the<br \/>\nIranian port of Bandar Abbas over the weekend, AIS Live ship<br \/>\ntracking data on Reuters showed on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Syria, a small exporter at 109,000 barrels per day in 2010,<br \/>\nused to sell most of its crude to Europe until European Union<br \/>\nsanctions on oil trade with President Bashar al-Assad&#8217;s<br \/>\ngovernment stopped those sales last year.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The MT Tour is owned by ISIM Tour Limited, a shipper<br \/>\nidentified by the United States as an Iranian government front<br \/>\ncompany set up to evade sanctions. It loaded Syrian light crude<br \/>\nin the Mediterranean in late March before sailing through the<br \/>\nSuez Canal and then heading east.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Iran sent the tanker to pick up the crude, estimated to be<br \/>\nworth about $84 million to its sanctions-hit Syrian ally, and a<br \/>\nsource told Reuters last month the cargo was destined for China.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It is not clear why the MT Tour has now dropped anchor off<br \/>\nIran, which as one of the world&#8217;s biggest crude producers has no<br \/>\nreason to import more.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Tehran is finding it difficult enough to find buyers for its<br \/>\nown oil as European and Asian customers cut back imports due to<br \/>\nsanctions, forcing it to store millions of barrels of its own<br \/>\ncrude in oil tankers.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Iranian VLCC MT Nabi heading towards Suez * Another Iran VLCC anchored off South Africa for a month By Daniel Fineren DUBAI, April 15 (Reuters) &#8211; The MT Tour tanker carrying Syrian crude oil dropped anchor in the Strait of Hormuz near the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas over the weekend, AIS Live ship [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-9952","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}