A Nigerian tanker has been detained off Libya in a smuggling probe.

The Libya Herald said the 4,700-dwt Temeteron (built 1991) was held off Zawia on Tuesday with a cargo of diesel.

It was heading from Malta to Tripoli. AIS data shows it moored at Tripoli on Thursday.

The vessel is owned by Thalassa Shiptrade of Nigeria and managed by Athens-based Panomar Shipmanagement.

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