Korea Shipowners' Association
South Korea's national trade association representing ocean-going shipowners.
On 27 October, the Korea Shipowners' Association said vessels named in Iran's Sinokor warning were sub-chartered and carried no South Korean crew.
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The Korea Shipowners' Association represents South Korea's ocean-going shipowners. It treats a vessel as Korean only when a member has bought the ship or hired its crew, not when a member has merely sub-chartered it. That test has become its defence as Iran targets a Korean-linked fleet.
In September 2026 it applied the test to the tanker Senegal Prosperity, struck in the strait of Hormuz on 1 September. On 27 October it said the ships Iran's Persian Gulf Strait Authority had listed were not owned by Sinokor Merchant Marine but sub-chartered to an overseas oil company, with no South Korean crew, and that Sinokor was unaware of the warning and was checking the details.
Sinokor ships moved nearly 40% of September's Hormuz crude, and Iran's notice was aimed at the insurers and cargo owners who must now decide whose risk those ships are.
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