Tanker "United Kalavryta" left anchorage after months
The which has been anchored for months off the US laden with one million barrels of oil has started sailing towards Gibraltar.
The Marine Management Services (MMS) of Greece confirmed that the tanker was heading towards southern Spain.
The vessel has not offloaded and no discharge orders have been given as yet. According to a court document from Jan 20, 2015, the KRG told Judge Miller of Texas District Court that the tanker would soon be forced to move to another destination in order to pass special surveys designed to maintain its class certification.
The vessel would move given the mounting cost and continued delays occasioned by this litigation.
The tanker got caught up in the middle of a conflict between Iraq and Kurds over the ownership of the cargo during summer 2014.
A US court decided earlier in January that it was in its jurisdiction to make a ruling on the "United Kalavryta".
But the KRG said in its letter to the judge that it continued to believe that courts in the US were not the appropriate forum in which to resolve issues in this case.
The which has been anchored for months off the US laden with one million barrels of oil has started sailing towards Gibraltar.
The Marine Management Services (MMS) of Greece confirmed that the tanker was heading towards southern Spain.
The vessel has not offloaded and no discharge orders have been given as yet. According to a court document from Jan 20, 2015, the KRG told Judge Miller of Texas District Court that the tanker would soon be forced to move to another destination in order to pass special surveys designed to maintain its class certification.
The vessel would move given the mounting cost and continued delays occasioned by this litigation.
The tanker got caught up in the middle of a conflict between Iraq and Kurds over the ownership of the cargo during summer 2014.
A US court decided earlier in January that it was in its jurisdiction to make a ruling on the "United Kalavryta".
But the KRG said in its letter to the judge that it continued to believe that courts in the US were not the appropriate forum in which to resolve issues in this case.