kweli kabisa Felix habari hii si ya leo kama usemavyo ni ya mwaka jana. Hakuna hatua yeyote imechukuliwa kwani Marekani amefunga macho katika jambo hili. Kazi inaendelea kama kawaida. No action will be taken against Tanzania by anyone.
On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 12:56 AM, Felix Mwakyembe <fkyembe@gmail.com> wrote:
Hii habari ipo tangu mwaka jana, imeandikwa sana, meli zinasajiliwa na Kampuni moja huko Dubai iliyopewa mamlaka hayo na serikali ya Zanzibar.
--On 27 July 2013 16:44, Mwema Felix <mwema.felix@gmail.com> wrote:hivi kweli inawezekana meli za iran kutumia masafa ya tz bila wahusika
wa tz kujua? kazi ipo.
On 7/27/13, Abdalah Hamis <hamisznz@gmail.com> wrote:
> Tanzania could find itself in an awkward diplomatic position again
> following revelations that Iran is now using the country's national
> identity to evade sanctions imposed on its oil tankers.
>
> Shipping intelligence data indicate that Iranian vessels and other ships
> blacklisted by the US are using signals assigned to Tanzania. Under this
> cover, the tankers no longer fly the Tanzanian flag.
>
> But the ploy has been exposed by their continued use of the signal that
> identifies Tanzania in international shipping traffic.
>
> "They (Iranian ships) now appear as flag "unknown", but they have continued
> to identify themselves in shipping traffic as flagged to Tanzania," noted
> Ms Claudia Rosett of the US-based Foundation for Defence of Democracies in
> an article published in *Forbes* magazine last week.
>
> "The tell-tale sign is a nine-digit number known as a Maritime Mobile
> Service Identity number, or MMSI, part of the on-board signalling system
> that transmits the registered identity of a ship as well as its location.
> The MMSI number is unique for each vessel, but the initial three digits
> identify the ship's flag state (677 for Tanzania)," explained the
> ship-tracking data analyst.
>
> *Strongly denied*
>
> The revelation comes exactly a year after the government assured the world
> that it had deregistered the Iranian vessels that were plying international
> waters fraudulently using its flag.
>
> Initially, the authorities strongly denied that there were Iranian ships
> registered under the Tanzanian flag. The government conceded only after
> evidence showed that Iran secured the cover through Zanzibar. The incident
> triggered international pressure for Tanzania to be penalised.
>
> After completing deregistration of the ships last December, the government
> issued a circular to all its embassies explaining measures it had taken to
> deal with the matter. The circular was issued by the ministry of Foreign
> Affairs and International Cooperation after the government announced it had
> joined forces with the European Union (EU) and the Zanzibar government to
> establish the owners of the Iranian tankers.
>
> On Sunday, the permanent secretary in the ministry of Infrastructure, Mr
> Omar Chambo, said he was not aware of the new turn of events. He said he
> could not comment on the matter since he was not in the country and advised
> this paper to follow up the matter with the ministry on Monday.
>
> *Tougher sanctions*
>
> Other government officials in a position to clarify the matter were
> unavailable for comment. They include ministers Bernard Membe of Foreign
> Affairs and International Cooperation and Harrison Mwakyembe of
> Infrastructure.
>
> Iran has increasingly found it difficult to avoid the shipping embargo,
> especially after the tougher US sanctions that took effect on July 1 under
> the Iran Freedom and Counter-Proliferation Act of 2012 (IFCA).
>
> The new restrictions are meant to help shut down Iran's foreign-flagging
> operations, potentially targeting the provision of registry, flagging and
> classification services to Iran's shipping sector.
>
> Ms Rosett writes in the July 12 edition of* Forbes*: "But over the past
> month, at least 39 Iranian oil tankers have signalled as registered to
> Tanzania, 34 of them since the beginning of July. That number accounts for
> well over half the crude carriers of Iran's main tanker fleet, owned by
> NITC, formerly known as the National Iranian Tanker Company."
>
> *Key role*
>
> On Thursday, a New York-based watchdog organisation which played a key role
> in exposing links between Tanzania's flag and Iran's tankers said the new
> scheme also involves Very Large Crude Carriers.
>
> United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) officials said in an email to this paper
> that data they had seen indicated that 32 NITC tankers currently signalling
> Tanzanian flags delivered over the past few months.
>
> "We are particularly concerned with the role that a US-based company,
> Philtex, seems to be playing in this flagging. As the agent of the Tanzania
> Zanzibar ship registry, it seems that Philtex is continuously granting
> Tanzanian flagging rights to the NITC's newest and most capable super
> tankers, in violation of US sanctions," UANI official Nathan Carleton told
> *The
> Citizen *on Sunday.
>
> Philtex was contracted by Zanzibar to oversee its ship registration
> services. After the flagging saga, the authorities said they had terminated
> the agreement. The *Forbes *report said the company officials claim Philtex
> was "still managing the Tanzania Zanzibar shipping registry".
> http://www.africareview.com/News/Iranian-ships-using-Tanzanian-ID-to-evade-sanctions/-/979180/1922664/-/10jndqsz/-/index.html
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