Peruvian officials have put a halt to tanker loadings and unloadings at a Repsol refinery in the country after an oil spill.
The move followed a decision by a court granting a request by prosecutors to seize an Italian tanker involved in the incident near Lima.
The moves came after a 15 January incident in which waves from the massive volcanic eruption in Tonga led to a spill at a Repsol terminal in Peru, where Fratelli d’Amico Armatori’s 158,319-dwt suezmax tanker Mare Doricum (built 2009) was offloading.
