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Tanker and operator banned from trading in UAE

On Sep 13, 2024, the Oceanexl FZC company along with the tanker 'D S G' was banned from bunker trading by the UAE Maritime Administration due to multiple offenses, including the violation of federal law and international conventions. The decision to ban the supplier along with the delivery vessel was made following an incident where the tanker had delivered 700 metric tons of High Sulfur Fuel Oil (HSFO) under the pretext of delivering Very Low Sulfur Fuel Oil (VLSFO) to a vessel that did not have a scrubber. The OceanEXL had deliberately provided misleading information, claiming that the transfer of oil was a ship-to-ship transfer and not a bunkering operation. A formal letter from the senior management of OceanEXL to the Maritime Administration of the UAE stated that they had not issued the Bunker Delivery Note (BDN). During the subsequent investigation, the ship receiving the oil had produced the BDN provided by OceanEXL, proving to be in direct contradiction to the claims of OceanEXL management. The BDN had also been falsified to show that the oil being transferred was VLSFO, whereas the investigation revealed the oil transferred to be HSFO.