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Oil tanker driver, helper killed in crash with Rolls-Royce in Haryana's Nuh

An oil tanker driver and his helper were killed while three occupants of a Rolls-Royce were injured when the heavy vehicle crashed into the luxury car on the Delhi-Mumbai-Baroda Expressway in this district, police said Wednesday. The accident took place on Tuesday afternoon when the tanker, which was being driven on the wrong side, collided with the car near Umri village under Nagina police station limits, they said. Police said the limousine immediately caught fire after colliding with the tanker, but all its five occupants were rescued in the nick of time by their relatives who were closely behind in another car. Those killed in the crash were identified as tanker driver Rampreet and his helper Kuldeep, both residents of Uttar Pradesh, they said. The three injured, occupants of the luxury car, were identified as Divya and Tasbir, residents of Chandigarh, and Vikas, a resident of Delhi, police said, adding they are being treated at Gurugram's Medanta Hospital. Police reached the

Tanker believed to hold sanctioned Iran oil begins offloading near Texas

An American-owned oil tanker long suspected of carrying sanctioned Iranian crude oil began offloading its cargo near Texas late Saturday, tracking data showed, even as Tehran has threatened to target shipping in the Persian Gulf over it. The fate of the cargo aboard the Suez Rajan has become mired in the wider tensions between the US and the Islamic Republic, even as Tehran and Washington work toward a trade of billions of dollars in frozen Iranian assets in South Korea for the release of five Iranian-Americans held in Tehran. Already, Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard has warned that those involved in offloading the cargo should expect to be struck back. The US Navy has increased its presence steadily in recent weeks in the Mideast, deploying the troop-and-aircraft-carrying USS Bataan and considering putting armed personnel on commercial ships traveling through the Strait of Hormuz to stop Iran from seizing additional ships. Ship-tracking data analyzed by The Associated Press

Tugboat sinks in Egypt's Suez Canal after colliding with tanker: Official

A tugboat sank Saturday in Egypt's Suez Canal after it collided with a Hong Kong-flagged tanker, the waterway's authorities said. In a statement, the Suez Canal Authority, which oversees the operation of the key water passage, said its teams were working to recover the tugboat after it launched an operation to save the seven-person crew. It did not mention whether the movement of other ships transporting through the canal had been affected. The canal, which connects the Mediterranean and Red Seas, sees periodic groundings of mega-large transport ships that go through it, many of them travelling between China and Europe and the Western Hemisphere. Tugboats help guide ships passing through. The tanker involved in Saturday's collision, the authority said, was the Hong Kong-flagged tanker Chinagas Legend, which it said was now waiting in Port Said. In March 2021 a skyscraper-sized container ship, the Panama-flagged Ever Given, ran aground in a single-lane stretch of the canal, blocking

4 dead as tanker overturns on Pune-Mumbai Expressway, triggers fire

Eyewitnesses said that the oil tanker had lost control when travelling along the expressway and overturned, igniting the fire

Burning oil tanker Pablo in the South China Sea is a global problem

The Gabon-registered ship, capable of carrying some 700,000 barrels of crude oil, was coming through the South China Sea after offloading a cargo in China

How new tanker giants are sprouting from nowhere to keep Russian oil moving

Almost 1,200 miles away in Dubai, a small office in a run down industrial estate, offers no clues that it, too, is a small cog in Russia's vast new petroleum supply chain

India to withdraw licenses for oil tankers, bulk carriers older than 25 yrs

"Age norms will assist in ensuring gradual phasing out of fossil fuel ships and ushering in of alternate/low carbon energy efficient ships," the order said

India faces no immediate impact of oil tanker pileup in Turkey: Officials

Situation could change if jam in Bosphorus Strait continues as a result of sanctions on Russian seaborne crude, they say

Drone hits Israeli-linked tanker; Iran frees 2 Greek tankers

An oil tanker associated with an Israeli billionaire has been struck by a bomb-carrying drone off the coast of Oman amid heightened tensions with Iran, officials said on Wednesday. Meanwhile, Greece said Iran freed two Greek oil tankers held by Tehran since May. The drone attack on the Liberian-flagged oil tanker Pacific Zircon happened on Tuesday night off the coast of Oman, one Mideast-based defence official told The Associated Press. The official was not authorised to discuss the attack publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity. The Pacific Zircon is operated by Singapore-based Eastern Pacific Shipping, which is a company ultimately owned by Israeli billionaire Idan Ofer. In a statement, Eastern Pacific Shipping said the Pacific Zircon, carrying gas oil, had been hit by a projectile some 150 miles (240 kilometres) off the coast of Oman. We are in communication with the vessel and there is no reports of injuries or pollution. All crew are safe and accounted for, the company

UN Security Council calls for donations to avoid Yemen oil tanker leak

Members of the UN Security Council made an unusual plea to help avoid a "catastrophic ecological, maritime, and humanitarian risk posed by the Safer tanker" off Yemen

Yemeni conglomerate puts up $1.2 mn to salvage oil from rotting tanker

"It would be an unimaginable ecological catastrophe," if the Safer were to break up, HSA chief executive

European Union to ban insurance for tankers that carry Russian oil

Ship insurance companies not only cover the physical damage to the hull and machinery of the vessel but also provide protection and indemnity (P&I) against third-party liability

Saudi-led forces receive distress signal from oil tanker off Yemen: Report

The report, on Wednesday, gave no further details but said there were "high-risk indicators" in waters off Hodeidah port on the Red Sea, one of the world's busiest maritime lanes

Sri Lanka to extend lease of 14 out of 99 oil tanks to India for 50 years

The new agreement will be an extension of the 2002 agreement with the local operators of the Indian Oil Company, LIOC

ICG airlifts S Korean in need of medical attention from oil tanker off Goa

The Indian Coast Guard on Sunday airlifted a South Korean national, who needed urgent medical attention, from an oil tanker ship off the Goa coast to a hospital

Suez blockage sets shipping rates racing, oil and gas tankers diverted away

Reeling from the blockage in the Suez Canal, shipping rates for oil product tankers have nearly doubled this week, and several vessels were diverted away from the vital waterway

Covid-19: Unemployed supertankers are about to get junked on Asia's beaches

On Wednesday, daily earnings for supertankers sailing on the benchmark Middle East to China route were -$1,190, according to figures from the Baltic Exchange in London

Iran state TV acknowledges it seized South Korean-flagged oil tanker

Iranian state television has acknowledged that Tehran seized a South Korean-flagged oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz

Second fire on oil tanker off Sri Lankan coast now under control: Navy

The fresh fire on board a giant oil tanker that went up in flames last week off Sri Lanka's eastern waters while carrying crude oil from Kuwait to India is now under control, the Lankan Navy said

Patch of diesel fuel found in ocean near Sri Lanka oil tanker fire

The MT New Diamond is carrying nearly 2 million barrels of crude oil and officials have warned of possible massive environmental damage to Sri Lanka''s coast if the ship leaks or explodes