Gatik Ship Management has emerged as one of the leading players in the Russian oil shipping market, specializing in moving quasi-sanctioned Russian crude to refineries in India. The company has become one of the larger dirty tanker operators in the span of a single...

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OPEC will welcome Iran’s full return to the oil market when sanctions are lifted, the secretary general of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) told the Iranian oil ministry’s website SHANA on Monday. Iran is an OPEC member, although its oil...

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The Columbia Group has underlined its commitment to the burgeoning Turkish maritime cluster by opening an office in Istanbul. CSM Turkey will be headed up by Capt Ozgur Gunes and overseen by Xanthos Kyriakou and Johann Meyer from the Italian and German offices...

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Pakistan is scheduled to receive around 750,000 barrels of Urals crude over the coming days, which would mark the South Asian nation’s first commercial-scale purchase of Russian crude oil as it looks to take advantage of steep discounts on the medium sour grade to...

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In the past two months, since the beginning of April, yet more examples of criminal gangs utilising the complexity of European import trades to smuggle in drugs have continued to emerge. Reports include cocaine in containers of fruit through the port of Antwerp; in...

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