VLCC carrying Saudi crude detained in South Africa

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Singapore-A VLCC carrying Saudi Arabian crude and bound for the US Gulf Coast has been detained at the South African port of Durban, a port official and shipping sources said Friday. The 2011-Callisto Glory, chartered by Saudi Aramco shipping Vela, was on its way from Ras Tanura to the US Gulf Coast with 280,000 mt, or two million barrels, of crude when it was stopped. According to Platts' ship tracking software, cFlow, the Callisto Glory has been in Durban since Tuesday. The vessel left Saudi Arabia's Abu Safah Offshore Terminal on October 28 bound for the US Gulf Coast.