Prohibited oil tankers yet to test Nigerian ban

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London—None of the 102 tankers banned by Nigeria has attempted to enter the country’s territorial waters since state-owned Nigerian National Petroleum Corp. introduced the ban on July 15, according to shipping sources and Platts shiptracking software cFlow. One of the banned vessels—the New Medal VLCC—initially had the Bonny Terminal in Nigeria as its captain’s destination, seemingly making it the first ship on the list to attempt to test the ban. But information from cFlow now shows the tanker is instead headed to the Republic of Congo.