VOL. XLV

No 25

24-June-2002

IRAN

NITC Updates OnFleet Expansion

TheNational Iranian Tanker Company (NITC) has taken delivery of the first of five VLCC痴 ordered from Hyundai of South Korea. The Iran Huwayzeh is a 300,000 DWT capacity vessel which set sailfor Iran on 28 May and arrived at Cilandharbor on KhargIsland on 13 June. The following day NITC began loading the vesselwith 2mn barrels of crude oil destined for a customer in Sweden. The vessel was said by official news agency IRNA on15 June to...