NITC Says Trying to Avoid Sanchi Row With China

EghtesadOnline: The National Iranian Oil Company is awaiting further investigation into the disastrous fate of its oil tanker Sanchi , as it aims to eschew a diplomatic showdown with China over one of the worst maritime incidents in recent history, the NITC chief said on Wednesday.

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Publish Date:03/February/2018 | 11:59

Joint Investigation Launched Into Sanchi

EghtesadOnline: The maritime authorities of China, Panama, Iran and Hong Kong on Thursday signed an agreement to jointly investigate a collision in the East China Sea, which caused the worst oil ship disaster in decades, according to China’s Ministry of Transport.

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Publish Date:27/January/2018 | 06:56

Sanchi 's Black Box Opened

EghtesadOnline: The black boxes for the tanker Sanchi and the freighter CF Crystal, the two vessels that collided in the worst oil ship disaster in decades, have been opened, ISNA reported on Wednesday.

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Publish Date:25/January/2018 | 11:07

Sanchi 's Slick Size Trebles

EghtesadOnline: The spill from a sunken Iranian tanker off China’s east coast has more than trebled in size, just over a week after the ship sank in a ball of flames.

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Publish Date:24/January/2018 | 10:30

China Says Sanchi May Be Leaking Bunker Fuel

EghtesadOnline: Bunker fuel may now be leaking from the Iranian oil tanker that sank in the East China Sea last Sunday, China's State Oceanic Administration said, underlining fears for contamination from the world's worst oil ship disaster in decades.

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Publish Date:21/January/2018 | 13:27

South Korea Says Sanchi Could Burn for a Month

EghtesadOnline: The stricken Iranian oil tanker in the East China Sea could burn for as long as one month, South Korea’s Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries told Reuters on Wednesday, as the blaze raged for a fourth day following a collision with a freight ship.

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Publish Date:14/January/2018 | 15:58

Burning Iranian Vessel Rocked by Explosions

EghtesadOnline: The stricken Iranian oil tanker Sanchi keeps exploding, hampering efforts to extinguish the fire and rescue survivors, state media Xinhua said on Friday, citing the Chinese Ministry of Transport, as the blaze raged and worries grew the ship may break up and sink.

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Publish Date:13/January/2018 | 09:32

Sanchi ’s Oil May Have Reached Japan Shores

EghtesadOnline: 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 that sank in the world’s worst such disaster in decades, the Japanese Coastguard said on Friday.

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Publish Date:03/February/2018 | 09:19

Sanchi 's VDR, Wreck Inspection Planned

EghtesadOnline: The voyage data recorder of Iranian oil tanker Sanchi will be examined in China in the next few days, a deputy at Iran's Ports and Maritime Organization said, as the country hopes the ship's black box will shed some light on one of the worst maritime incidents in recent history.

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Publish Date:21/January/2018 | 13:23

Sanchi Sinks, Crew Presumed Dead

EghtesadOnline: An Iranian oil tanker has sunk after burning for more than a week following a collision on Jan. 6 in the East China Sea, Chinese state media said on Sunday, adding that large amounts of oil are burning in the surrounding waters.

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Publish Date:15/January/2018 | 13:33