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NEW DELHI: India-flagged lipid tanker 'Jag Laadki', which was loading crude astatine UAE's Fujairah larboard connected Saturday erstwhile the lipid terminal was attacked, sailed safely for India from the larboard connected Sunday morning, the shipping ministry said.
The vessel is carrying astir 80,800 tonnes of Murban crude, an lipid people produced by the UAE, it added. The ministry besides said each Indian seafarers connected committee the vas were safe. The vessel is owned and operated by the Mumbai-based Great Eastern Shipping Company.
A Liberian-flagged tanker, MT Smyrni, carrying astir 1.4 lakh tonnes of crude reached the Mumbai larboard connected Saturday night. This is the 3rd tanker to scope an Indian larboard aft crossing Strait of Hormuz amid the West Asian conflict.
In a statement, govt said, "Two Indian-flag LPG carriers, Shivalik and Nanda Devi, carrying astir 92,712 tonnes of LPG, which crossed the Strait of Hormuz connected March 14, are presently connected transition to India and are scheduled to scope Mundra Port connected March 16 and Kandla Port connected March 17, respectively." At present, 22 Indian-flagged vessels with 611 seafarers stay westbound of the Persian Gulf region. India has been successful discussions with Iran for harmless transition of India-flagged ships successful the conflict-hit region.
