OIC tanker leaves Ras Lanouf for Italy on Tuesday

Tripoli, (IINA) : An oil tanker left the Libyan port of Ras Lanouf for Italy on Tuesday, the first shipment since fighting erupted over control of the “oil crescent” two years ago, AFP reported quoting an official.

“The Maltese-flagged vessel Seadelta has just left Ras Lanouf port with 776,000 barrels of oil, going to Italy. This is the first shipment of oil from Ras Lanouf port since November 2014,” said Omran el-Fitouri, oil exports coordinator at the port. The shipment is also the first to leave any of the four ports in the area since they were seized by military strongman Khalifa Haftar last week. His forces handed the ports over to the National Oil Corporation (NOC), which said that crude exports would resume “immediately” from Ras Lanuf and another of the four ports – Zuwaytina.