Iran offers oil shipment insurance to India to keep tankers sailing

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Tehran’s efforts to overcome the returning U.S. sanctions include providing their own insurance coverage. Iran has started offering India oil shipment insurance to cover tankers operated by Iranian companies. The goal is to overcome the barriers occurring as a result of Indian insurance companies backing out of covering Iranian oil takers due to the return of sanctions from the United States. By providing their own cargo insurance for tankers headed to India, Tehran is hoping to keep tankers moving. As India is Iran’s second largest single oil customer – China…

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