{"id":10957,"date":"2020-06-03T14:37:39","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T11:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/us-blacklists-four-greek-tankers-for-involvement-in-oil-trade-with-venezuela\/10957\/"},"modified":"2020-06-03T14:37:39","modified_gmt":"2020-06-03T11:37:39","slug":"us-blacklists-four-greek-tankers-for-involvement-in-oil-trade-with-venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/us-blacklists-four-greek-tankers-for-involvement-in-oil-trade-with-venezuela\/10957\/","title":{"rendered":"US blacklists four Greek tankers for involvement in oil trade with Venezuela"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>The US Department of the Treasury\u2019s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has blacklisted four single vessel companies for alleged involvement in oil trade with Venezuela as the Trump administration tightens sanctions against the Maduro regime in Venezuela.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The latest sanctions block four oil tankers, the 2007-built aframax <em>Athens Voyager<\/em>, the 2017-built suezmax <em>Chios I<\/em>, the 2006-built VLCC <em>Seahero<\/em> and the 2003-built VLCC <em>Voyager I<\/em>. According to <em>VesselsValue<\/em>. the vessels are owned by Greek owners Chemnav Shipmanagement, Dynacom Tankers, Thenamaris and NGM Energy respectively.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe\u00a0illegitimate Maduro regime\u00a0has enlisted the help of maritime companies and their vessels to continue the exploitation of Venezuela\u2019s natural resources for the regime\u2019s profit. The United States will continue to target those who support this corrupt regime and contribute to the suffering of the Venezuelan people,\u201d said US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The US has imposed similar sanctions for vessels involved with trades with Iran. Last month, Venezuela deployed navy vessels to escort tankers transporting oil from Iran.<\/p>\n<p>splash247<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Department of the Treasury\u2019s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has blacklisted four single vessel companies for alleged involvement in oil trade with Venezuela as the Trump administration tightens sanctions against the Maduro regime in Venezuela. The latest sanctions block four oil tankers, the 2007-built aframax Athens Voyager, the 2017-built suezmax Chios I, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10958,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[3245,378,7198,166,198,2221,112],"class_list":["post-10957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tanker-news","tag-blacklists","tag-greek","tag-involvement","tag-oil","tag-tankers","tag-trade","tag-venezuela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10957","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=10957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/10958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}