{"id":3124,"date":"2019-09-27T11:42:10","date_gmt":"2019-09-27T08:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/?p=3124"},"modified":"2019-09-27T11:42:13","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T08:42:13","slug":"seized-stena-impero-leaves-iran-owner-confirms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/seized-stena-impero-leaves-iran-owner-confirms\/3124\/","title":{"rendered":"Seized Stena Impero Leaves Iran, Owner Confirms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>The detained tanker Stena Impero has finally been released and is sailing to Dubai, according to the ship\u2019s owner Stena Bulk.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cStena Bulk and Northern Marine Management confirm the Stena Impero and its crew have been released,\u201d&nbsp;<\/em>Erik Hanell, President and CEO of Stena Bulk, said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cThe vessel has left the port of Bandar Abbas and is transiting to Dubai for the crew to disembark and receive medical checks and de-briefing.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hanell further noted that the families of crew members have been informed and the company is making arrangements for the repatriation of the sixteen seafarers&nbsp;<em>\u201cat the earliest possible opportunity.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 46,575 cbm ship&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/worldmaritimenews.com\/archives\/280371\/iran-seizes-uk-flagged-tanker-in-strait-of-hormuz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">was detained<\/a>&nbsp;near the Strait of Hormuz for alleged marine violations on July 19, only weeks after the Royal Marines and Gibraltar authorities&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/worldmaritimenews.com\/archives\/279566\/gibraltar-royal-marines-detain-tanker-en-route-to-syria\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">seized<\/a>&nbsp;the Iranian tanker Adrian Darya 1, previously named Grace 1, due to suspicions of violating EU sanctions on Syria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran later&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/worldmaritimenews.com\/archives\/282668\/iran-to-free-seven-stena-impero-crew-members\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">released seven<\/a>&nbsp;of the 23 Stena Impero crew members as the ship\u2019s owner, Stena Bulk, requested the removal of non-essential personnel.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The detained tanker Stena Impero has finally been released and is sailing to Dubai, according to the ship\u2019s owner Stena Bulk. \u201cStena Bulk and Northern Marine Management confirm the Stena Impero and its crew have been released,\u201d&nbsp;Erik Hanell, President and CEO of Stena Bulk, said. \u201cThe vessel has left the port of Bandar Abbas and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3125,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,20],"tags":[185,91,444],"class_list":["post-3124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marine-world","category-news","tag-dubai","tag-iran","tag-stena-impero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3124","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=3124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/3125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}