Baku, Azerbaijan, Jan. 28
By Emil Ilgar – Trend:
Iran has signed deals with dozen European companies like Spanish Cepsa and Italian Eni to rent its 35 oil tankers to them for oil transits, Sirous Kian-Ersi, the managing director of the National Iranian Tanker Company (NITC) told Mehr.
He added that the all of 35 deals are voyage charter.
During January, three Iranian super tankers reached Europe.
After several years of suspension regarding the sailing of Iranian oil tankers to EU due to sanctions, the first Iranian oil ship reached Spain's Algeciras and two other Iranian tankers also left Persian Gulf to Netherlands.
Iran’s oil exports to EU reached 622,581 barrels a day in January, according to Bloomberg’s calculations.