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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 1027014" data-attributes="member: 12952">[h=4]It is alarming that ship-tracking databases show Iranian-linked ships calling at Benghazi[/h] [h=2]About Those Blacklisted Iranian Ships Calling at Libyan Ports…[/h]&nbsp; IRISL, in its effort to dodge sanctions, has made a habit of&nbsp; reassigning nominal ownership of its vessels. renaming and reflagging&nbsp; scores of ships, often multiple times — frequently reshuffling the&nbsp; facades in batch lots among new flags and fresh domiciles for corporate&nbsp; fronts. But each vessel can be tracked via its unique hull number, or&nbsp; IMO, assigned under rules of the International Maritime Organization for&nbsp; the life of the ship.But this much is clear: All three of these container ships, before&nbsp; sailing for Libya, called at the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas, where the&nbsp; container terminal is operated by a terror-linked Iranian company&nbsp; called Tidewater Middle East Co. Last year the U.S. Treasury blacklisted&nbsp; Tidewater as “a port operating company owned by Iran’s Revolutionary&nbsp; Guard Corps (IRGC) that has been used by the IRGC for illicit&nbsp; shipments.”&nbsp; It’s worth adding that under U.S. jurisdiction, it is potentially a&nbsp; crime to have any dealings with these ships. Anyone outside U.S.&nbsp; jurisdiction who engages in business with them is at risk of being cut&nbsp; off from commerce with the U.S.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 1027014, member: 12952"] [h=4]It is alarming that ship-tracking databases show Iranian-linked ships calling at Benghazi[/h] [h=2]About Those Blacklisted Iranian Ships Calling at Libyan Ports…[/h] IRISL, in its effort to dodge sanctions, has made a habit of reassigning nominal ownership of its vessels. renaming and reflagging scores of ships, often multiple times — frequently reshuffling the facades in batch lots among new flags and fresh domiciles for corporate fronts. But each vessel can be tracked via its unique hull number, or IMO, assigned under rules of the International Maritime Organization for the life of the ship. But this much is clear: All three of these container ships, before sailing for Libya, called at the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas, where the container terminal is operated by a terror-linked Iranian company called Tidewater Middle East Co. Last year the U.S. Treasury blacklisted Tidewater as “a port operating company owned by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) that has been used by the IRGC for illicit shipments.” It’s worth adding that under U.S. jurisdiction, it is potentially a crime to have any dealings with these ships. Anyone outside U.S. jurisdiction who engages in business with them is at risk of being cut off from commerce with the U.S. [/QUOTE]

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