{"id":155787,"date":"2026-04-21T15:18:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T22:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=155787"},"modified":"2026-04-21T15:18:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T22:18:05","slug":"us-intercepted-tanker-moves-near-sri-lanka-waters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2026\/04\/21\/us-intercepted-tanker-moves-near-sri-lanka-waters\/","title":{"rendered":"US-intercepted tanker moves near Sri Lanka waters"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>April 21 (Daily Mirror) &#8211; Ship-tracking data indicates that a crude oil tanker intercepted by the US military in the Indian Ocean made a sharp change of course in the early hours of this morning and is now broadcasting its position around 700km (430 miles) south-east of Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to data from MarineTraffic, the crude oil tanker *Tifani*, which has a carrying capacity of nearly 300,000 tonnes, is currently loaded with cargo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The vessel has been sanctioned by the Office of Foreign Assets Control and is linked to an Indian shipping company that is also subject to US sanctions over alleged ties to Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tracking data shows that the tanker departed the Gulf region on April 10 and made a brief stop near Sri Lanka\u2019s southern port of Galle on April 18 before being intercepted by US forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was previously expected to reach its reported destination of Singapore on Sunday, according to MarineTraffic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror April 21 (Daily Mirror) &#8211; Ship-tracking data indicates that a crude oil tanker intercepted by the US military in the Indian Ocean made a sharp change of course in the early hours of this morning and is now broadcasting its position around 700km (430 miles) south-east of Sri Lanka. According to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155788,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155787\/revisions\/155788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}