Burning Oil Tanker Off Malaysia Rings Shadow-Fleet Alarm Bells
- The Gabon-registered ship observed in Iranian waters in 2022
- Some 25 of 28 crew have been rescued: Singapore authorities
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Three crew members are missing from a Gabon-registered tanker that caught fire on Monday in the South China Sea, a Malaysian maritime enforcement agency official said on Tuesday.
The Pablo, an Aframax-class crude oil tanker whose insurers are unknown, was traveling from China and was empty, according to ship-tracking data compiled by Bloomberg. The ship is designed to hold about 700,000 barrels of oil when full.