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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Japan chooses to continue providing its own oil insurance

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Despite the fact that the sanctions against Iran have been lifted, the country will be keeping its sovereign coverage. Now that the sanctions against Iran are being lifted, it means that there will be considerably greater oil insurance offerings available to countries that want to purchase their crude from Tehran, but Japan has decided that it will be maintaining its own sovereign coverage. The current situation in the industry is improving the uncertainty with regards to being able to obtain coverage. With the lifted sanctions, oil insurance protection will, once…

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When oil insurance becomes available again, Iran will sell more crude

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The country intends to begin boosting its shipment to awaiting customers once the sanctions are lifted. Refiners in Asia are now gearing up to purchase more crude from Iran once word has been confirmed that the sanctions have been lifted and oil insurance can once again be purchased internationally for tankers and refineries carrying and processing crude from the country. Tehran is now working hard to attempt to compete and rebuild its market share within an oversupplied marketplace. When the deal was finally reached among world leaders, last Tuesday, following…

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Japanese Iranian oil insurance shipping costs to rise this year

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According to recent reports, Japan’s maximum coverage for tankers carrying crude from Iran is expected to rise. According to sources quoted in several oil insurance news reports, Japan is preparing to raise the maximum cover for tankers transporting crude from Iran within the 2015-2016 fiscal year (April-March). This is the result of an increase put into place by the International Group of P&I Clubs, among other factors. The weakening of the Japanese yen, in comparison with the American dollar has also had an effect on the oil insurance protection and…

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Oil insurance sanctions from EU to ease against Iran next week

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Pending the go-ahead from the U.N nuclear watchdog changes will go into effect on January 20. The governments in the European Union are planning to implement relief to the EU oil insurance and other sanctions that were placed against Iran, on January 20, the day after a nuclear agreement goes into effect. This will mean that the Middle Eastern country will be able to find coverage for its crude exports. Following an accord from November 24, the E.U. will be implementing a six month suspension of the current bans on…

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