Neither of two oil tankers that collided off Singapore on Friday 19 July carried Iranian crude, the
Iranian oil ministry said on Saturday. “The
crude oil of neither of these damaged oil tankers was related to Iran and did not belong to Iran,” the ministry said
in a statement on its website.
The Singapore-flagged
tanker Hafnia Nile and the Sao Tome and Principe-flagged tanker Ceres
I caught fire after collidingon the eastern approach to the Singapore
Straits on Friday, the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore said.