The long wait to begin offloading a suspected Iranian cargo on a tanker seized by the US government appears to have come to an end, despite Iranian threats to retaliate against such an action.

An MR product carrier is currently alongside Empire Navigation’s 159,000-dwt Suez Rajan (built 2011) in waters off the Texas port of Galveston, according to tracking data from the Clarksons-backed Sea platform.