Iranian tanker moves fuel oil to vessel off Malaysia

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Singapore—An Iranian tanker discharged 270,000 mt of fuel oil into a floating storage unit at Malaysia’s Tanjung Pelepas port this week, barely two weeks after another Iranian ship unloaded crude into an FSU near Labuan Island off East Malaysia’s Sabah state, industry sources said September 19. With international sanctions imposed on Tehran limiting its usual export outlets, the Islamic Republic is seeking to park its oil elsewhere to evade the shipping insurance ban imposed on international commercial vessels calling at Iranian ports to load oil.