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Tanker with Iranian oil unloaded cargo near Zhoushan

The "Marshal Z", carrying Iranian fuel oil in violation of U.S. sanctions, has unloaded the cargo into storage tanks of the Jinrun Petroleum Transfer Co. near Zhoushan. The discharging of the nearly 130,000 tonnes of Iranian fuel oil was confirmed by a representative of the oil storage terminal. It marked the end of an odyssey for the cargo that began four months ago. On March 20 it was remarked that Iranian fuel oil had managed to evade the sanctions on petroleum exports by using ship-to-ship transfers involving four different ships, including the "Marshal Z", and by using forged documents that masked the cargoes as originating from Iraq. From March 22 until arriving at the Jinrun terminal on the island of Liuheng on May 8, the tanker maintained a constant draught of 15.9 metres which indicated the cargo was not discharged before reaching the terminal, about 30 km south of Zhoushan, near Shanghai. On May 12, the ship finished unloading the fuel oil and left the terminal, the tracking data showed. The vessel was headed for the waters just outside Singapore, set to arrive on May 21. The "Marshal Z" took on the cargo from a larger tanker off the coast of the United Arab Emirates in January. It transferred the fuel oil to a second tanker, the "Libya", off the Malaysian port of Malacca later that month. But potential buyers wary of the U.S. sanctions steered clear of the "Marshal Z"'s cargo. By March 22, the tanker took the fuel oil back from the "Libya" and anchored off the Malaysian and Singaporean coasts. The vessel lingered off Singapore and Malaysia in March and April, the ship tracking data shows, before sailing to Hong Kong and finally to Liuheng island, off the eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang. According to a shipbroker report dated Jan. 28, the tanker was sold to an undisclosed buyer and intended for use as floating storage.

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