TEHRAN, May 5 - An Iran-led panel investigating a tanker tragedy that claimed the lives of 32 people off China’s shores in January has identified “human error” for causing what is believed to have been the worst oil ship disaster in decades.
TEHRAN, February 18 - Recent figures show that Iran’s exports of oil to South Korea dropped by almost a half in January after a tanker incident off China’s shores, but the country’s exports to India rose nonetheless by above 50 percent.
TEHRAN, January 28 - Spokesman of National Iranian Tanker Company Mohsen Bahrami said Iranian Ports and Navigation Organization has held talks with crew of Chinese freighter CF Crystal which has had an accident with Iran’s Sanchi tanker.
TEHRAN, January 28 -The bodies of three of Iranian crew of the Sanchi, which caught fire after a collision on Jan. 6, have been identified, and the black boxes belonging to the two vessels have been handed over to Iran.
TEHRAN, January 24 - The ‘black box’ belonging to a sunken Iranian oil tanker, Sanchi, which was retrieved on Jan. 13, has been opened a few minutes ago in the presence of representatives of relevant countries in Shanghai, Iran’s Consul General in Shanghai announced Tuesday.
TEHRAN, January 22 - Iran held a commemoration ceremony for late Iranian sailors who were aboard an ill-fated Iranian oil tanker that had been burning near China’s eastern coast for a week.
TEHRAN, January 21 - Iranian Ports and Maritime Organization has sent a delegation to China to decode VDR of an Iranian oil tanker, sunken in East China Sea, in coming days, said Head of the organization Mohammad Rastad.
TEHRAN, January 16 -Chinese Ambassador to Iran Pang Sen expressed his deep condolences to the bereaved families of the victims of Sanchi oil tanker, bursting into flames from end to end and sinking off China’s coast.
TEHRAN, January 15 - Hamas Islamic Resistance Movement Representative in Tehran expressed a message of condolence over the death of the 32 Iranian sailors on board the Iranian oil tanker.