Carriers

Burning oil tanker off Malaysian rings shadow-fleet alarm bells

Three crew members are reported missing from a tanker that caught fire on Monday near Malaysia. The old vessel could be part of a shadow fleet used to carry sanctioned oil across the globe.
Archival image of the Port of Singapore. | Photo: Roslan Rahman/AFP/Ritzau Scanpix
Archival image of the Port of Singapore. | Photo: Roslan Rahman/AFP/Ritzau Scanpix
By Ann Koh and Kok Leong Chan, bloomberg news

Three crew members are missing from a Gabon-registered tanker that caught fire on Monday in the South China Sea, a Malaysian maritime enforcement agency official said on Tuesday.

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