ISNA | Hemmat Khahi: The bodies of three crew members of the Iranian oil tanker 'Sanchi' which sank off east coast of China arrived home early on Wednesday.  

MNA Irans Ports and Maritime Organization announced on Tuesday that it has received both black boxes for sunken Sanchi oil tanker, adding the data has remained untouched. The deputy director of Irans Ports and Maritime Organization Hadi Haghshenas, who was attending a ceremony to commemorate the 40th day after the death of the Iranian sailors ...

Reuters - Clumps of oil have washed up on the shores of southern Japan and there are fears they may be leaking from an Iranian crude tanker than sank in the worlds worst such disaster in decades, the Japanese Coast Guard said on Friday. Black clumps have reached the shores of the island of Amami-Oshima, a coast guard official told Reuters by phone....

IRNA The waters near Iranian sunken oil tanker Sanchi meet Chinese standards, the Beijing-based newspaper China Daily reported. The water quality in the East China Sea where an Iranian tanker sank over three weeks ago, causing an oil slick, meets the highest Chinese standards,' China Daily quoted the maritime authority as saying on Monday. The ...

IRNA The black box of the sunken Iranian oil tanker had not been damaged, deputy head of Ports and Maritime Organization said. 'The committee to investigate Sanchi accident consisting of representatives from Iran, China, Hong Kong and Panama are reviewing issues related to the deadly accident,' Hadi Haqshenas said on Monday. 'The black box information ...

IRNA - The bodies of three crew members of the Iranian oil tanker 'Sanchi' which sank off east coast of China have been identified based on DNA tests, according to a report by the secretariat of the committee to investigate the oil tanker incident. The report identified the victims as Milad Aravi, Majid Naqian and Mohammad Kavoosi. Carrying over ...

Reuters - The worst tanker oil spill in decades is unfolding across hundreds of miles of the East China Sea after an Iranian oil tanker carrying more than 100,000 tonnes of toxic oil collided with a freighter and exploded, killing all 32 crew onboard. The ship burned, spewing its cargo, for more than a week before sinking in the waters between China,...

MNA An Iranian maritime official says the crew of the Crystal freighter, which collided with Sachi oil tanker, were interrogated and the results are confidential. The investigation committee of the Sanchi oil tanker tragedy, comprised of representatives from Iran, China, Hong Kong, and Panama managed to wrap the questioning of the crew of CF ...

IRNA Iran consul general in Shanghai said on Thursday that the DNA tests taken from the bodies of the Iranian sailors killed in the Sanchi oil tanker inferno earlier this month have been sent to Tehran two days ago. The results of the DNA tests are to be compared with those from the families of the victims in Tehran, Alireza Irvash told the Islamic ...

MNA An Iranian maritime official says that parallel with decoding of the black boxes of the Sanchi and the Chrystal, which started on Wednesday, the crew of the Crystal will also get interrogated since Friday. The black boxes for the tanker Sanchi and the freighter CF Crystal were opened before the representatives from Iran, China, Hong Kong,...

IRNA The black box of the Iranian sunken oil tanker Sanchi has been opened in the presence of representatives from the involved countries on Wednesday, Iran consul general to Shanghai said. After opening the black box, the data inside it will be decrypted and delivered to the relevant sides, Alireza Irvash told the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) ...

IRNA Iranian President Hassan Rouhani described the oil tanker incident as very better and sad, saying that the government did all its best to save Sanchi tanker and seamen on board. He made the remarks in a live televised speech to the Iranian nation late on Monday. The government set up a committee at the earliest to deal with the issue and ...

IRNA Vice-President for Legal Affairs Laiya Joneidi vowed to follow up the case of the Iranian sunken oil Tanker Sanchi. While condoling with Sanchi victims' survivors, Joneidi said the incident had a national dimension and depressed all Iranians. She said executive organs will follow up the case on their own through their legal departments. However,...

Press TV - Giant oil slicks have reportedly been forming off China's east coast just over a week after a burning Iranian oil tanker in the area, amid warnings by environmentalists that the spill could threaten the marine life there by exposing it to extremely toxic substances. The State Oceanic Administration said in a statement late Sunday ...

IRNA Iranian representative is going to be present at the opening of the black box of the Chinese freighter that crashed into the Iranian Sanchi oil tanker on January 6, said the head of Iran's Ports and Maritime Organization. 'It is expected that the black boxes [of both ships] be opened concurrently,' said Mohammad Rastad. Rastad added, 'The ...

Mizan | Hamed Ataei: President Hassan Rouhani participated in a memorial service held Sunday in Tehran to commemorate victims of Sanchi tanker inferno.  

IRNA President Hassan Rouhani participated in a memorial service held Sunday in Tehran to commemorate victims of Sanchi tanker inferno. Majlis (Parliament) Speaker Ali Larijani, First Vice President Eshaq Jahangiri, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, Defense Minister Brigadier General Amir Hatami, and a number of other Iranian officials also ...

Sputnik - With the voyage data recorder still being examined from the Iranian Sanchi tanker in South China Sea that sank earlier in January, several experts shared their views with Sputnik on the tragedy. In an official announcement, an Iranian Navy official said that all members ofthe Sanchi oil tanker, which collided witha Hong Kong bulk carrier,...

IRNA The process of transferring dead bodies of Iranian seamen will take one month, Iran consular general said. The DNA samples of all crew families should be sent to Shanghai to check with two dead bodies, Alireza Irvash told the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) on Tuesday. Based on Shanghai laws the transfer process will start after identifying ...

Reuters - An Iranian oil tanker that sank in the East China Sea has left two oil slicks covering a combined 109 square km (42 square miles), the Chinese government said late on Tuesday, as maritime police scour for damage and prepare to explore the wreck. Satellite imaging showed a slick of 69 square km (26.6 square miles) and a second 40 square ...