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Iran is using an Indonesian port in a strategy to keep up sales to buyers in Asia in the teeth of Western sanctions, sources

Foreign container shipping lines are giving up on Iranian business ahead of new U.S. sanctions in July, dealing a further blow to Tehran's vital seaborne

By Jonathan Saul LONDON, April 24 (Reuters) – Iran is storing millions of barrels of oil on tankers in its territorial waters as Tehran struggles with

By Meeyoung Cho SEOUL, April 15 (Reuters) – South Korea resumed imports from Iran of natural gas liquids in March, customs data showed on Monday, after

By Gopal Ratnam (Bloomberg) — The U.S. is lifting sanctions imposed in 2011 on three companies accused of doing business with Iran after they pledged not

By Chen Aizhu BEIJING, April 2 (Reuters) – A Chinese tanker loaded crude in Iran in March, according to shipping data and an industry official, the first

By Isaac Arnsdorf and Jasmine Wang March 27 (Bloomberg) — A Chinese supertanker able to haul 2 million barrels of crude sent a signal from Iran’s

By Jonathan Saul LONDON, March 18 (Reuters) – Iran’s NITC has replaced Hamid Behbahani, a former minister and ally of President Mahmoud

By Alister Bull WASHINGTON, March 14 (Reuters) – The United States slapped financial sanctions on Thursday on a Greek businessman it says secretly

By Jonathan Saul LONDON, March 4 (Reuters) – Archer Daniels Midland Co unwittingly used a vessel controlled by a sanctioned Iranian shipping firm last

(Bloomberg) — Iran has a $3 billion credit with Turkey over natural gas it sold to its neighbor and may use it to import commercial and leisure ships,

By Nidhi Verma NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s Mercator Lines has stopped offering a ship for transporting Iranian oil to India due to U.S. political

By Jonathan Saul LONDON (Reuters) – Iran is using old tankers, saved from the scrapyard by foreign middlemen, to ship out oil to China in ways that avoid

(Bloomberg) — Iran, which dropped two places to become India’s fourth-largest crude supplier last year, may lose $2.5 billion of revenue as global

By Jonathan Saul LONDON (Reuters) – Iran has taken delivery of several new tankers from Chinese shipyards, giving it greater flexibility in maintaining

By Anupama Chandrasekaran CHENNAI, India, Jan 30 (Reuters) – The eight Indian crew members on board the MV Amina had no inkling they were trapped on the

By Geraldine Amiel PARIS–French integrated oil and gas major Total SA (TOT, FP.FR) Monday confirmed that Samsung Total Petrochemicals, its joint venture

By Jonathan Saul LONDON – Western sanctions imposed over the past months against Iran’s shipping industry will seriously affect

  By Jessica Donati and Daniel Fineren LONDON/DUBAI, Dec 6 (Reuters) – Iranian oil tankers are sending incorrect satellite signals that confuse

By Jonathan Saul LONDON, Dec 5 (Reuters) – Western pressure that forced foreign ship classifiers out of Iran has increased safety risks, including the