{"id":10901,"date":"2020-06-02T21:36:16","date_gmt":"2020-06-02T18:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/u-s-sanctions-four-shipping-companies-for-transporting-venezuelan-oil\/10901\/"},"modified":"2020-06-02T21:36:16","modified_gmt":"2020-06-02T18:36:16","slug":"u-s-sanctions-four-shipping-companies-for-transporting-venezuelan-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/u-s-sanctions-four-shipping-companies-for-transporting-venezuelan-oil\/10901\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Sanctions Four Shipping Companies for Transporting Venezuelan Oil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>Marshall Islands-based Afranav Maritime Ltd, Adamant Maritime Ltd and Sanibel Shiptrade Ltd, as well as Greece-based Seacomber Ltd, all own tankers that lifted Venezuelan oil between February and April of this year, the Treasury Department said.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese companies are transporting oil that was effectively stolen from the Venezuelan people,\u201d Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Washington sanctioned Venezuelan state-run oil company Petroleos de Venezuela last January, shortly after the United States and dozens of other countries declared Maduro a usurper who rigged his 2018 re-election.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Maduro blames the sanctions for Venezuela\u2019s woes and accuses Washington of seeking to oust him in order to control the country\u2019s vast crude reserves.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Neither Venezuela\u2019s oil ministry nor PDVSA immediately responded to requests for comment. Afranav did not immediately respond to a request for comment, while the other three companies could not be reached for comment.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>But Maduro remains in power, which some U.S. officials privately say has been a source of frustration for President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Tuesday\u2019s sanctions come after Washington in February and March <a href=\"https:\/\/gcaptain.com\/u-s-sanctions-rosneft-trading-unit-over-venezuelan-ties\/\">sanctioned<\/a> two units of Russia\u2019s Rosneft, which became the main intermediary of Venezuelan crude in 2019. The units stopped lifting Venezuelan crude in March.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The FBI is also probing several Mexican and European companies that are allegedly involved in trading Venezuelan oil. One of those companies, Libre Abordo, said this week it was bankrupt. Treasury also designated four tankers owned by the companies as blocked property. Those tankers had been used by Rosneft, Libre Abordo and a related Mexican firm \u2013 Schlager Business Group \u2013 to transport Venezuelan oil this year, according to PDVSA documents. Treasury also designated four tankers owned by the companies as blocked property. Those tankers had been chartered this year by the Rosneft units, Libre Abordo and a related Mexican firm \u2013 Schlager Business Group \u2013 to transport Venezuelan oil, according to PDVSA documents.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Luc Cohen in New York Additional reporting by Marianna Parraga in Mexico City Editing by Marguerita Choy)<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><em>(c) Copyright Thomson Reuters 2019.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>gCaptain<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marshall Islands-based Afranav Maritime Ltd, Adamant Maritime Ltd and Sanibel Shiptrade Ltd, as well as Greece-based Seacomber Ltd, all own tankers that lifted Venezuelan oil between February and April of this year, the Treasury Department said. \u201cThese companies are transporting oil that was effectively stolen from the Venezuelan people,\u201d Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10902,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[3497,166,1082,62,3538,1189],"class_list":["post-10901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marine-world","tag-companies","tag-oil","tag-sanctions","tag-shipping","tag-transporting","tag-venezuelan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/10902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}