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Insurance news for Iran oil shows Indian ship owners displeased with coverage

August 8, 2012 Julie Campbell

India’s top tanker companies have rejected its own government’s offer. The latest insurance news regarding Iranian oil has shown that the top ship owners in India have rejected an offer from their government to provide coverage for shipping crude from the Iran, saying that the protection being offered is inadequate. The tanker coverage was offered in an attempt to skirt the European Union’s sanctions. The refusal of these ship owners has meant that the refiners in India will need to use the coverage being offered from Tehran, as well as…

Iran oil insurance offered by Tehran to South Korea

July 23, 2012July 23, 2012 Julie Campbell

Officials in the Middle Eastern nation are working to get around the EU bans. Iran oil insurance for tankers carrying crude from the country’s ports has been offered to South Korea, for accident coverage with a maximum of $1 billion. Iranian officials have made this effort to help skirt the coverage bans from the European Union. South Korea, through Hyundai Oilbank and SK Innovation, are currently considering this offer, say officials from both of those countries. These two businesses also have complete ownership over the other refiner in the country,…

Iran oil insurance sanctions may not stop the country’s exports

July 13, 2012April 30, 2013

Tehran has discovered a number of ways to work around the embargo. Tehran has now developed several different ways to reduce the impact of the Iran oil insurance embargo on tankers shipping crude from that country. The Middle Eastern nation has been working hard to decrease the impact of the E.U. sanctions. The European Union, as well as the United States, have made several efforts in order to significantly limit the ability for crude to be exported, by holding an embargo on the shipments as well as banning Iran oil…

E.U. Iran oil insurance sanctions slash country’s exports almost by half

July 9, 2012April 30, 2013

Insurance rates increase for offshore accounts

The daily shipments of crude for July could be nearly fifty percent lower than the average in 2011. Due to the Iran oil insurance sanctions by the European Union and those made by the United States, it looks as though the daily crude experts from that country could drop below the halfway mark when compared to 2011’s average in that month. Two of the top buyers of Tehran’s crude, South Korea and Japan, have already ceased all of their imports in July as a result of the sanctions that were…