Iranian oil contributes to easing the fuel crisis

Officials in the shipping sector, port, and dealers reported that Iran had delivered several shipments of gasoline and crude oil to Syria, which alleviated a shortage of gasoline that lasted for nearly two months, exacerbated by US sanctions. Reuters quoted three officials in the shipping sector, and a businessman working from Damascus familiar with the shipment, as saying that a ship began unloading 38,000 tons of gasoline at the Baniyas oil terminal on Monday, three weeks after another ship carrying Iranian crude was unloaded. Million barrels.In addition, an Iranian ship carrying another million barrels of barrels unloaded its cargo in the Mediterranean on board two smaller vessels, for delivery to
Syria. They added that those shipments were delivered two weeks ago.
This comes as data from Tanker Trackers, which tracks oil shipments and stocks, showed a rise in Iranian exports last month, in defiance of US sanctions. In this context, experts say that about half of Iran’s crude exports were carried by foreign ships via ship-to-ship transport, which makes it difficult to determine the final destinations. Likewise, they say that the more stringent restrictions that the Lebanese authorities use to avoid falling under the “Caesar Act” have also reduced the use of Lebanese ports. But two oil dealers based in Damascus, and a banker working from Beirut familiar with the Syrian oil trade, said that the government arranged shipments of gas oil imported through Lebanon and shipped by land, and supplies were arranged through the Al-Qaim border crossing with Iraq.