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NEW DELHI: Amid the situation successful West Asia, 2 vessels - LPG tanker Pyxis Pioneer, carrying 16,714 tonnes of LPG from the US, and lipid tanker Aqua Titan, carrying 96,099 tonnes of Russian crude - arrived astatine New Mangalore Port connected Sunday.Mangaluru has India's largest underground LPG retention installation of 80,000 tonnes, which became operational successful Sept 2025.Pyxis Pioneer, which near the Port of Nederland successful Texas connected Feb 14, is discharging the cooking gas. The port's authorization has waived cargo-related charges for LPG and crude lipid from March 14 to 31.According to vessel tracker Marine Traffic, the Cameroon-flagged Aqua Titan arrived astatine the larboard astir 11.30am, hardly 4 days aft reports claimed that the Russian oil-laden tanker was primitively headed for the Chinese larboard of Rizhao, but changed its people and headed to India.
What made it alteration people was unclear.News bureau Bloomberg, quoting information from Vortexa, had said astatine slightest 7 tankers, including Aqua Titan, carrying Russian lipid had switched their destinations mid-voyage from China.In effect to a question past week, Rajesh Sinha, peculiar caput successful the shipping ministry, had said Aqua Titan had been "chartered by Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Limited" and it was expected to get astatine New Mangalore Port.
