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Bloomberg
2 days ago
- Business
- Bloomberg
EU-Sanctioned Nayara Energy Set to Receive Iraqi Crude This Week
A supertanker is set to deliver Iraqi crude to India's Nayara Energy in the next day or two, in what shippers say will be the first discharge of non-Russian oil since the refiner was sanctioned by the European Union. The Kalliopi, a very-large crude carrier, is currently heading to Vadinar port with about two million barrels of Iraqi crude, according to shipbrokers and ship-tracking data. The shipment, which is expected to arrive late on July 28, is meant for Nayara, the shipbrokers added.
Bloomberg
29-06-2025
- Bloomberg
Electronic Warfare Crashes Global Shipping's Navigation Systems
Konstantinos Tsotras was captaining his oil supertanker through the Persian Gulf at the height of Israel's strikes on Iran when it disappeared from his own navigation screen. For the ship's managers thousands of miles away, it appeared — impossibly — to be on a hilltop near an Iranian gas field. The Greek captain knew immediately what was happening to the Nissos Nikouria, a 330-meter (1,083-foot) vessel that along with its cargo of Kuwaiti crude was worth about $260 million. His electronic navigation systems had been interfered with, something that happened thousands of times to vessels during the conflict.
