An Iranian-flagged oil tanker pursued by the U.S. amid heightened tensions between Tehran and Washington changed its listed destination to a port in Turkey early Saturday, Aug. 24, after Greece said it wouldn’t risk its relations with the United States by aiding tanker.
The crew of the Adrian Darya 1, formerly known as the Grace 1, updated its listed destination in its Automatic Identification System (AIS) to Mersin, Turkey, a port city in the country’s south and home to an oil terminal. The Adrian Darya had earlier put its intended destination as Kalamata, Greece, even though the port did not have the infrastructure to offload oil from the tanker.
