February 14th, 20202Donald Trump has this week directed the Department of Homeland Security, the Pentagon, and the Commerce Department to minimise the amount of US systems dependent on GPS for positioning, navigation and time that could easily be hacked due to the vulnerabilities associated with GPS. This executive order stems from recent fears that Russia,...
January 27th, 20201National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) has put domestic company Petropars solely in charge of the development of phase 11 of the giant South Pars gas field following the withdrawal of Total and CNPC, reports Tehran Times. Petropars was a member of a consortium with France’s Total and China’s CNPC to develop the field, however the two...
January 8th, 20201The families of the disaster have told Splash about the massive cover-up they believe has taken place in one of the worst shipping accidents of the past decade, and they are adamant many survived the inferno and have since been jailed. The fully laden National Iranian Tanker Company (NITC) suezmax tanker collided with the Chinese...
January 3rd, 20200Merchant shipping heading through Middle Eastern waters has been placed back on high alert over fears Iran may retaliate to American drone strikes earlier today that killed a top Iranian general. Iran's most powerful military commander, General Qasem Soleimani, was killed by a US air strike in Iraq at around 1am this...
December 31st, 20190Iran has detained a tanker allegedly carrying smuggled fuel near the entrance to the Strait of Hormuz. According to reports by Iranian state-run Islamic Republic News Agency, the tanker carrying 1.3m liters of smuggled fuel was intercepted near Abu Musa island. Sixteen Malaysian crew members onboard the unidentified vessel were...
December 18th, 20193With the second anniversary of the disaster three weeks away, the family members of the victims of one of the worst tanker accidents of the decade have headed to America and filed a lawsuit against the ship's owner, National Iranian Tanker Company (NITC) and two Iranian government officials in a district court in Washington DC, alleging...
October 14th, 20190One in five VLCCs in operation today face restrictions from US sanctions, according to data from Braemar ACM. Research carried out by the shipbroking house also shows that just over a sixth of the world’s suezmax fleet and 10% of the aframax/LR2 fleet face similar trading restrictions from Washington, something that has sparked the...
October 14th, 20190The , an Iranian suezmax attacked on Friday morning in the Red Sea off Jeddah, has left a trail of oil as it sailed more than 500 miles over the weekend towards Eritrea before turning around and is now likely headed back to Iran where it will require significant repairs. Iranian authorities are saying the ship was attacked by two...
October 11th, 20190A fully laden Iranian suezmax belonging to NITC has been hit by two explosions in the Red Sea, while en route to Syria, with vast quantities of crude gushing from its breached hull. The 1999-built is the third Iranian ship to run into trouble in the area in the last six months with two other tankers breaking down near Saudi...
September 27th, 20190Seventy days since it was detained, the has finally left Bandar Abbas port today, with AIS tracking suggesting the Stena Bulk tanker is headed to Port Rashid in the United Arab Emirates, a half-day’s steaming away. The Stena Bulk vessel was detained by Iran's Revolutionary Guards in the Strait of Hormuz on July 19 for alleged...
