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| Vilamoura tanker carrying 1 million barrels of oil explodes off Libya coast |
| 2025-07-01 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] An explosion occurred on board the Vilamoura tanker off the coast of Libya, the American news agency Bloomberg reports, citing the management company TMS Tankers. The incident occurred on June 27, the ship under the flag of the Marshall Islands left a port in Libya and was heading to Gibraltar. The explosion flooded the engine room, but there was no oil leak, the crew was not injured. In total, the tanker was carrying 1 million barrels of oil. The reasons for the incident are unknown. The ship is being towed to a Greek port, where they will assess the extent of the damage. The agency specified that in recent months the tanker has twice called at Russian ports to transport oil from Kazakhstan to Ust-Luga and the CPC terminal near Novorossiysk. As reported by the Regnum news agency, three vessels caught fire on June 17 off the coast of Iran in the area of ​​the Strait of Hormuz. According to media and the monitoring service, they were oil tankers. The incident occurred against the backdrop of the worsening situation in the Middle East and discussions of Iran possibly blocking the Strait of Hormuz. |
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