Iraqi Oil Ministry receives new oil tanker
An Iraqi oil tanker. Photo: INA
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) – The Iraqi Ministry of Oil announced on Tuesday that the Iraqi Oil Tanker Company (IOTC) received the new tanker, Sumer.
Director of IOTC, Ali Qais, told the Iraqi News Agency (INA) that the technical team of the company received on Tuesday the new oil tanker ‘Sumer’ in China, with a tonnage of 31,000 tons.
“The oil tanker sailed from China towards Iraq, and it will enter service next September,” Qais said.
“The IOTC concluded a contract in 2020 with a Norwegian company to build two oil tankers, each with a capacity of 31,000 thousand tons,” the IOTC’s director illustrated.
Qais emphasized the company’s eagerness to own a modern fleet of oil tankers through new contracts with specialized international companies.
The IOTC owns 17 oil tankers of different tonnages in addition to four small-tonnage tankers specialized in supplying tankers with fuel (bunkering tankers).
The company mentioned in 2022 that it owns four tankers with tonnage ranging between 10 and 13 thousand tons, and that it is building two tankers with a tonnage of 30 thousand tons.
The IOTC director indicated that the company’s strategy is to continue purchasing oil tankers with different payloads to be able to transport crude oil and oil products to different destinations in the world.