NYT: Oil tankers seized by #Trump cost the United States tens of millions of dollarsThe Trump administration's campaign to seize oil tankers carrying oil from countries under U.S. #sanctions has proved to be much more expensive than expected.Acco...
...rding to The New York Times, the maintenance of only one captured tanker, Skipper, has already cost the United States $ 47 million in just three months, although the cost of the ship itself is estimated at about $ 10 million.The tanker was detained in December while transporting 1.8 million barrels of Venezuelan oil from #Venezuela to Asia. Since then, costs have continued to rise: oil storage alone costs the U.S. government about $15,000 per day.According to the newspaper, at the moment, ...
...the US authorities are asking the court to allow the tanker and its cargo to be sold even before the final decision on the case in order to compensate for the costs.Subscribe to Solovyov!
