Tasnim The chairman of the Iranian parliaments Civil Commission rejected claims that some crew members of the Iranian oil tanker Sanchi that sank in the East China Sea in January 2018 are alive and have been taken as hostages, saying that no crew has survived the incident. Speaking to the Tasnim News Agency, Mohammad Reza Rezaei Kouchi deplored ...

FNA - Tehran City Council will name a street in the capital city after the victims of the tragic incident of Sanchi oil tanker, Chairman of City Council Mohsen Hashemi announced on Sunday, on the first anniversary of the saddening event. "The Council's naming committee will review the request by National Iranian Tanker Company to name a street in ...

Tasnim A senior official at Iran Insurers Syndicate said all parties involved in the liability insurance of the Iranian oil tanker Sanchi that sank in the East China Sea in January have made their compensation payments. Speaking to reporters on Sunday, Mohsen Qarehkhani said all vessels have two kinds of insurance coverage, namely liability insurance ...

IFP- An Iranian committee entrusted with finding the cause of the deadly collision of the Chinese ship CF Crystal with the Iranian oil tanker Sanchi in January declared negligence on the part of both sides and an unexpected change of direction by the Chinese ship contributed to the tragedy. The head of the committee, Nader Pasandeh, told a press ...

SHANA - The National Iranian Tanker Company CEO says the company has planned to start a series of search operations at the site of Sanchi tanker's sinking. The Sanchi oil tanker collision occurred on 6 January 2018 when the Panamanian-flagged, Iranian-owned tanker Sanchi, with a full natural-gas condensate cargo of 136,000 tonnes (960,000 barrels),...

January 28, The Iran Project - The heartbreaking fate of sailors aboard an ill-fated Iranian oil tanker that had been burning near Chinas eastern coast for a week has been sealed. Iranian officials say the vessel has fully sunk, and that available evidence shows that all crew members died soon after it collided with another vessel and a powerful blast ...

IRNA Scuba divers will be definitely dispatched to the site where Sanchi tanker sank two months ago, according to an NIOC official. Mohsen Bahrami, the spokesman of National Iranian Oil Company said on Monday that the insurance companies and the related countries want to know about the condition of the sunken Iranian tanker. Carrying over 130,...

IFP - An Iranian lawmaker says the country is going to deploy a group of deep-sea divers to China to explore the Panama-registered Sanchi oil tanker, which caught fire and sank in East China Sea in mid-January. Iranian Parliaments National Security Commission Spokesman Seyyed Hossein Naqavi Hosseini said in addition to the team of divers, a ...

Reuters - Oil that reached islands in southern Japan earlier this month is highly likely to have come from the sunken Iranian tanker Sanchi, the Japan Coast Guard said on Thursday. Samples of oily matter that washed up on Feb. 8 on the shores of the Okinoerabu and Yoron islands in the Amami chain were found to be linked to the Sanchis sinking, the ...

Press TV - Recent figures show that Irans exports of oil to South Korea dropped by almost a half in January after a tanker incident off Chinas shores, but the countrys exports to India rose nonetheless by above 50 percent. Figures released by Reuters show that Iran exported 224,632 barrels per day (bpd) to South Korea last month, indicating ...

IRNA The funeral procession of three Iranian sailors killed in a tanker incident in China's East Sea will be held tomorrow after the Friday Prayers. National Iranian Tanker Company (NITC) said on Thursday that the funeral procession of the three Iranian sailors Majid Naqian, Mohammad Kavosi and Milad Aravi is scheduled for Friday Februaray 16 after ...

IRNA The operation to find the bodies of the sailors of the sunken Iranian oil tanker is going on in the depth of 115 meters (380 ft.), said the managing director of National Iranian Tanker Company on Wednesday. 'The explosions of flames were so strong that the oil tanker was totally deformed; however, the search operation is still going on and the ...

IRNA Three out of 32 dead bodies of crew members discovered from the sunken Sanchi tanker arrived in Iran's Imam Khomeini International Airport early on Wednesday. Family members of the victims and a number of the Iranian officials were present in the airport. The funeral procession of the three dead sailors of the January 6 Sanchi incident will ...

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 ...

IFP- The bodies of three seafarers of an Iranian oil tanker which sank in East China last month will be flown to Tehran Monday night. Iranian Consul General in Shanghai Alireza Irvash says the bodies of these brave sailors will be transferred to Tehran aboard Mahan Airline flight No. w5060 tomorrow night. All the procedures and measures necessary ...

IRNA The sunken Iranian oil tanker Sanchi's case is one of the main priorities of the Ports and Maritime Organization, an official said on Monday. All issues regarding the case will be followed up seriously, Ali Akbar Marzban said. 'Different bodies including the National Iranian Tanker Company (NITC), Ports and Maritime Organization and Iran Navy ...

MNA Iranian Deputy Chairman of Iran's Parliament National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Mohammad Mahdi Boroumandi said on Saturday that follow-up committee on Sanchi Oil Tanker will release its final report on Sanchi accident within two months. On this regard some issues are worth to be considered; firstly, the Chinese were very cooperative ...

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 ...