Alaska State Troopers and first responders rushed to an incident location at mile 133.5 of the Parks Highway after AST was alerted to the collision of two commercial tanker trucks at 1:30 am on Thursday morning. Upon arrival north of Trapper Creek, the driver of a fuel tanker, 67-year-old David Hope, of Talkeetna, was declared […]
An Iranian oil tanker at the center of a major diplomatic dispute with the United States has sold its cargo, Iran said. “The Adrian Darya oil tanker finally docked on the Mediterranean coast … and unloaded its cargo,” Iran’s state news agency IRNA quoted Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi as saying on Sunday. He didn’t […]
GIBRALTAR – An Iranian oil tanker seized in Gibraltar for violating EU sanctions sailed from Gibraltar’s waters Sunday after the British colony’s Supreme Court rejected repeated U.S. requests to turn over the vessel suspected of intending to deliver crude to Syria. Marine traffic monitoring data indicated Monday the tanker — with its named changed from Grace […]
“By threatening Iran with ‘serious consequences,’ without knowing what that may entail, Britain blindly dances to the beat of [U.S. national security adviser John] Bolton’s war drums.” With the United Kingdom and Iran in the midst of a tense and dangerous standoff after the tit-for-tat seizure of oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz, international observers are warning […]