Cosco Shipping Energy Transportation (CSET) has denied one of its main subsidiaries is the owner of CCPC Voyager (built 2004), an MR tanker suspected to have carried Iranian crude in sanctioned trade.

“Cosco Shipping Tanker (Dalian) Co is not the owner of the CCPC Voyager,” a company statement said.

“And the company has not made...ship-to-ship transfers with the two VLCCs CCPC Vanguard and VLCC Pacific Challenger ever.”