The United States interdicted a tanker off the coast of Venezuela on Saturday, just days after President Donald Trump announced a “blockade” of all sanctioned oil tankers entering and leaving Venezuela.
The vessel has been identified as the Centuries, which maritime records show is a Panama-flagged oil tanker.
The ship is not under U.S. sanctions, and marine traffic trackers showed the Centuries was off the coast of Venezuela in the waters of Curaçao.
The Centuries is a 333-metre-long oil tanker that last docked in Singapore in October, according to vessel tracker Maritime Optima.
Its reported seizure would mark the second time in recent weeks that the United States has seized a tanker near Venezuela, and comes amid a large U.S. military build-up in the region.