Too hot to handle: Why the owner of a sanctioned tanker is being given the cold shoulder by recyclers

"The Vietnamese owner of a US-blacklisted Aframax tanker is trying to sell it for scrap. But no ship recycler will touch it…Pressure group United Against Nuclear Iran earlier claimed the Abyss had transshipped more than 500,000 barrels of Iranian oil into a Euronav tanker in the Malacca Strait. The Belgian tanker owner said it had believed the Abyss was carrying Iraqi crude."