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Oil tankers near Iran appear to be in Russia as signals jammed
LONDON: The Front Tyne oil tanker was sailing through the Gulf between Iran and the UAE on Sunday when just past 9.40 am shiptracking data appeared to show the massive vessel in Russia, in fields better known for barley and sugar beets.
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By 4.15pm, the ship's erratic signals indicated it was in southern Iran near the town of Bidkhun, before later placing it back and forth across the Gulf. Mass interference since the start of conflict has hit nearly 1,000 ships in the Gulf, said Windward, a shipping analysis firm.
A collision involving tankers south of Strait of Hormuz, a vital shipping lane for world's oil, occurred on Tuesday with both vessels catching fire. One of them appeared to be onshore in Iran on June 15, data from commodity data platform Kpler showed. "There is usually no jamming in Strait of Hormuz and now there is a lot," Ami Daniel, chief executive of Windward. reuters
