A laden Today Makes Tomorrow (TMT)-owned combination carrier (OBO) is being chased around the Indian Ocean by creditors with seemingly no unloading terminal open to the tanker, amid suspicion it is carrying a cargo of Iranian crude.
The status of the Nobu Su-controlled, 319,000-dwt F Whale (built 2011) is now unclear, with its registration suspended by the Liberian Ship Register and uncertainty over attempts to re-register under the Panama flag casting doubt over the validity of its classification certification and its protection-and-indemnity (P&I) and hull-and-machinery insurance cover.
