General Licence T

General Licence T is an expired OFAC authorisation. While it ran, it permitted limited safety and environmental transactions, and the offloading of cargo, involving the blocked persons and the nine vessels named in its own annex, all of which OFAC had blocked on 23 January 2026. It never reached Iranian shipping at large. Its full text entered the public record when the Federal Register printed it on 7 May 2026, at 91 FR 24722.

The legal basis was Executive Order 13902 of January 2020, which covers additional sectors of Iran's economy. The permitted work was SAFE docking and anchoring outside Iran, Russia and Venezuela, the health and safety of a CREW, emergency repairs and environmental protection. A note extended that list to vessel management, crewing, bunkering, piloting, registration, flagging, insurance, classification and salvage.

The licence carried two express limits, and both still describe its reach. It did not authorise anything that 31 CFR part 560, the Iranian Transactions and Sanctions Regulations, prohibits, and it did not reach a single vessel outside its annex. Read with the expiry, that leaves a shipowner, salvor or insurer outside its terms on three counts at once: the date, the annex and part 560.