CARGO FROM ABADAN

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 26945, 22 January 1953, Page 7

CARGO FROM ABADAN

Italian Tanker Leaves (Rec. 7 p.m.) TEHERAN, January 20. The Italian tanker Miriella (3437 tons) has left Abadan for Genoa with 5000 tons of Persian oil aboard. It is the second cargo of oil to leave Persia since the dispute between the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company and the Persian Government paralysed the world’s largest refinery. The Miriella. which is chartered by the Supor Company of Italy, hurriedly took the oil aboard during the night. It will be held in bond in Genoa for transhipment Persian oil officials said the Supor Company had contracted for 2,000,000 tons of crude oil and 500,000 tons of refined products.

The Supor Company is reported to have reached a three-way barter deal with Persia and Poland. Italy is understood to have offered to supply motor vehicles and technical equipment to Persia in exchange for oil. The oil would in turn be shipped to Poland in exchange for Polish coal. The Miriella arrived last night and took on a cargo in record time. About 5000, largely unemployed refinery workers cheered as the tanker tied up and the oil line went aboard, and cries of “Long live our friends’’ and “Down with the British,” rang over the waterfront.

The first shipment of oil to leave Persia since the nationalisation of the Anglo-Iranian Company’s assets in 1951 was in the tanker Rose Mary, and the Aden Supreme Court ordered the cargo to be turned over to the British company after the tanker had been halted at Aden last year.