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By Jonathan Saul LONDON, June 15 (Reuters)– Three Greece- based delivery companies claimed they have actually stopped profession with Venezuela after the United States enforced assents on vessels under their administration, as Washington increases industrial warm on Caracas.

The UNITED STATE federal government is looking for to choke Venezuelan oil exports to deprive the federal government of socialist President Nicolas Maduro of its primary resource of income. Existing assents have actually reduced Venezuelan exports greatly, however Maduro has actually hung on.

Washington might tighten up assents by including loads much more vessels to an existing blacklist, resources informed Reuters.

The UNITED STATE Treasury claimed on June 2 it had actually enforced assents on 4 delivery business for carrying Venezuelan oil.

Athens- based Dynacom Tankers Management, which handles the Chios I vessel, amongst the ships blacklisted, claimed in a declaration on Monday it was “committed to refraining from any future business involving Venezuela”.

It included that the vessel’s proprietor Seacomber Ltd, which Washington likewise marked, was co-operating with UNITED STATE authorities to solve the issue.

NGM Energy SA, which handles an additional vessel blacklisted, the Voyager I vessel, claimed independently on Friday that it had actually carried out “a strict policy against servicing vessels intending to call at Venezuela or to load cargo of Venezuelan origin in the future, absent express U.S. authorization”.

It claimed because of this, an additional vessel under its industrial administration, the Commodore, had actually been “immediately diverted away from Venezuela, and will not return to that trade”.

NGM included that it was completely accepting UNITED STATE authorities to get to “a timely resolution” of the assents versus the Voyager I as well as its proprietor Sanibel Shiptrade Ltd.

Another leading Greek ship company, Thenamaris, claimed it was completely accepting UNITED STATE authorities to solve assents versus the Seahero vessel that it handles as well as the vessel’s proprietor Adamant Maritime Ltd.

Thenamaris claimed it had“adopted a firm policy prohibiting any carriage of crude oil from Venezuela for its vessels under management for as long as U.S. sanctions against Venezuela remain in place” (Editing by Jan Harvey)

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