Uncertainty over Iran gasoline export ships
Legal deadlock prevails over the position of four vessels allegedly carrying sanctioned Iranian gasoline to Venezuela, with no obvious means of the US carrying out court judgment entitling it to seize cargoes
‘Most shipowners have long since decided that Iran is an area they don’t want to be involved in. And if the trade is sanctionable or unlawful, we’re not going to go anywhere near it, either,’ says P&I lawyer