Panama deregisters oil tanker that strayed into Iranian waters
Country says MT Riah, which stopped transmitting location on 14 July, ‘deliberately violated international regulations’
Panama’s maritime authority has begun the process of withdrawing the registration of the oil tanker MT Riah, which ended up in Iranian waters after it disappeared from ship tracking maps in the strait of Hormuz on 14 July.
Panama began the flag-withdrawal process on Friday after an investigation determined the tanker had “deliberately violated international regulations” by not reporting any unusual situation, the authority said in a statement.