Blacklisted Indian tanker returns to Libya

The  Distya Ameya tanker, owned by India’s Elektrans Group, and blacklisted by the United Nations last week, has returned to Libya to offload its illicit cargo. The ship took on a cargo of oil from the east of war-torn Libya last week from a rival faction to the officially recognised government and was quickly condemned by the UN.

“This episode is a clear warning to all ship owners and trading companies that oil exports from Libya by any other entity than the National Oil Corporation of Libya are illegal and will be stopped,” the NOC chairman Mustafa Sanalla said in a statement.