Two Russian Urals Tankers Divert 14 Million Barrels to Indian Ports

Two tankers carrying Russian crude initially to East Asia have now diverted to India, Bloomberg has reported, as Asia grapples with an oil supply crunch amid the Strait of Hormuz traffic freeze. The two vessels are carrying some 1.4 million barrels of Urals and are expected to arrive at their new destinations by the end of the week, the report said, citing ship-tracking data from Kpler and Vortexa. In fact, one of them, a Suezmax carrying 730,000 barrels of Urals, has already arrived at a port on India’s east coast. The other, an Aframax…