Two tankers are included in a new round of US counter-terrorism sanctions imposed against purported finance and trade facilitators for Houthi militants in Yemen, Iran’s Qods Force and Lebanon’s Hezbollah.
The US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (Ofac) cited the 159,900-dwt Dawn II (built 2000) and 105,200-dwt Abyss (built 1998) in connection with what it said were the activities of Houthi financial facilitator Sa’id al-Jamal.
