According to publicly accessible ship-monitoring data, since January 1, 2016, vessels for which Centennial Maritime is the Operator have called at Iranian ports.
Upon the US withdrawal from the JCPOA on May 8, 2018, CMS Board of Directors resolved to cease all activities that would in any way (either directly or indirectly) link CMS or any ship under CMS operation with Iranian ports or Iran related activities. (June 21, 2018).
According to the website of Iranian company SATCO, SATCO is a “business partner” of Belzona.
"We withdrew from our relationship with SATCO in year 2016..." (March 13, 2019)
According to publicly accessible ship-monitoring data, since January 1, 2016, vessels for which Bayraktar is the Operator and Group Owner have called at Iranian ports.
"We would like to advise you that we don’t have any intention whatsoever to call Iran , and since jan 2016 none of our vessels called Iran." (9/14/2018)
According to publicly accessible ship-monitoring data, since January 1, 2016, vessels for which Aza is the Operator have called at Iranian ports.
"We have issued directions with regard to winding down of existing business with Iran and observe extreme caution in its execution. The contract period of such agreements will be over before the dead line as set out in the announcement made by the US President." (July 10, 2018)
According to publicly available shipping information, Bulk Carrier vessels NEW HORIZON (IMO: 9290701), NEW SUCESS (IMO: 9253181) and PACIFIC KNIGHT (IMO: 9127679) managed and operated by ATL Shipping, have called at an Iranian port on six occasions, most recently in July 2019.
"We well noted the sanction to Iran. The vessels have ever called Iran for Iron ore when Iron ore was not sanction cargo. We didn’t call any Iran port after US government had put Iron ore as part of Sanction cargo. WE strong support this sanction although it would reduce the demand of shipping." (September 26, 2019).
According to its website, Iranian company, Fatehin Sanat supplies, plans and installs products of AST.
AST has never had contact let alone business transactions with this organisation. It is a complete mystery. To emphasise the clarity of this response to you we have no business ties at all with this organisation. Furthermore, to the best of my knowledge AST has no business in Iran. (November 19, 2018)
According to its website, Iranian company, Fatehin Sanat supplies antenna room equipment made by AFJ Instruments.
Response: "We have not sold any product to this company. We are only a distributor of AFJ products into USA." (January 2, 2019)
According to its website, FAMCO (a troubling Iranian entitiy) sells Bauer gearboxes.
"All past transactions with Iran were in compliance with applicable law and, since the re-imposition of sanctions, Bauer has ceased all business with Iran." (October 10, 2018)
According to its Instagram, Mega Machine is the exclusive agent of Akyapak.
As you wrote your letter that we used to work with Mega Machine(Payaboresh) for 4-5 years but nearly 1 year ago we stop the work with them. We pushed them to remove our images and logos from their social accounts but they did not give any reaction for this issue. You can see our official letter and we stopped to work with them almost 1 year ago and we will never work with them again. (October 8, 2018).
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