No oil leak, no injury by break-down Iranian oil tanker in Red Sea

TEHRAN- An Iranian oil tanker carrying over one million barrels of oil suffered a malfunction in the Red Sea off the coast of Saudi Arabia.

By Mehdi Sepahvand

Iran Navy foils pirate attack on oil tanker

TEHRAN – Iran’s naval forces have successfully thwarted a pirate attack on an Iranian oil tanker in the Gulf of Aden.

Asian shipments of Iranian oil to surge in upcoming months

TEHRAN –Imports by the four major Asian buyers of Iranian oil are expected to pick up in the upcoming months through May, Reuters reported citing trade sources.

China keeps buying Iranian oil, and the trade war adds a reason to defy U.S. sanctions

China, the world’s top crude-oil buyer, imported around 718,000 barrels a day on average from Iran between January and May of this year, according to official Chinese customs data — equivalent to more than a quarter of Iran’s oil exports. China’s increased its imports of Iranian oil by 9.3 percent during the same time period from the year prior and is not expected to slow down purchases anytime soon.

Sanchi oil tanker investigations will be through by late May: MP

TEHRAN — Investigations uncovering the real causes of Sanchi oil tanker tragic incident in which the tanker burned and sank off the coast of China on January 6 will be completed by late May, MP Mohammad Reza Rezaei has said.

Chinese envoy condoles with Iranian nation on Sanchi tragedy

TEHRAN – Chinese Ambassador to Iran Pang Sen expressed his deep condolences to the bereaved families of the victims of the Sanchi oil tanker which sank on Sunday, days after a collision with a Chinese freighter some 300 kilometers east of Shanghai.

Leader: Oil tanker crew lost lives while serving country 

TEHRAN – Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Leader of the Islamic Revolution, issued a message on Sunday offering his “sincere” condolences to the Iranian families who lost loved ones in the oil tanker inferno in the East China Sea.

All sailors aboard Iranian burning oil tanker announced dead 

All 32 crew members on board an Iranian oil tanker that caught fire on January 6 after colliding with a freighter off China’s east coast are dead.

No hope of finding survivors in Iran tanker incident

There is no chance any crew members had survived among the 32 aboard an Iranian oil tanker that was still blazing a week after the ship collided with a bulk freighter and caught fire off China’s east coast.

Oil tanker tragedy: 2 bodies found, black box retrieved

TEHRAN - Chinese relief and rescue teams have located bodies of two of the Iranian oil tanker’s crew on Saturday morning, six days after the ship collided with a bulk freighter and caught fire off China’s east coast.

Efforts continue to tame fire on Iranian oil tanker: NITC official

TEHRAN – In collaboration with National Iranian Tanker Company (NITC), rescue crews are taking all necessary measures to tackle the fire on Sanchi tanker as soon as possible, IRNA reported on Tuesday quoting the NITC spokesman for the emergency committee on incident.

32 missing after Iranian, Chinese vessels collide

TEHRAN – An Iranian oil tanker heading to South Korea, collided with a Chinese cargo ship off the coast of east China on Saturday due to which the tanker’s 32 crew members went missing.

Iranian oil tanker collides with Chinese freighter, 32 missing

Thirty-two crew members, including 30 Iranians and two Bangladeshis, have gone missing after two vessels collided off China's east coast on Saturday evening, China's Ministry of Transport said Sunday.