An Iranian supertanker at anchor. REUTERS/Tim Chong
July 20 (Reuters) – Neither of two oil tankers that collided off Singapore on Friday carried Iranian crude, the Iranian oil ministry said on Saturday.
“The crude oil of neither of these damaged oil tankers was related to Iran and did not belong to Iran,” the ministry said in a statement on its website.
The Singapore-flagged tanker Hafnia Nile and the Sao Tome and Principe-flagged tanker Ceres I caught fire after collidingon the eastern approach to the Singapore Straits on Friday, the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore said.
(Editing by Tomasz Janowski)
(c) Copyright Thomson Reuters 2024.
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