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The Europe to the Middle East and India trade combines main load ports in Europe with destinations in the Red Sea, Persian Gulf and India. Apart from our direct ports in the Middle East area, we also serve Iran and Iraq on a transhipment basis, utilizing our own tonnage from Jebel Ali. With the extensive Höegh network, we can furthermore offer shipment out of several Mediterranean ports to the Middle East.

  The main destinations in the Red sea and the Persian Gulf are served with an average frequency of two sailings per month. Exceptions are Aqaba - Jordan and Mersin - Turkey, which are served on a monthly basis. Iran and Iraq are also served monthly, but with transhipment. Destinations in India are presently called upon on a monthly basis. (Company Website)

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 Höegh Autoliners and A.P. Moller – Maersk A/S has announced their agreement for A.P. Moller – Maersk A/S to become a shareholder in Höegh Autoliners holding 37.5 per cent of the shares effective from 1 January 2008. Leif Höegh & Co Limited will retain the position as majority shareholder in Höegh Autoliners. At the same time Höegh Autoliners acquires A. P. Moller - Maersk’s fleet of 18 car carriers (including six newbuildings). (Company Website)

"Aker has exported products produced in Asia to the oil and gas sector in Iran, and a German subsidiary - Wirth - has exported drilling equipment to Iran. A spokesman, Jannick Lindbaek, said the company has no current business in Iran due to commercial and contractual reasons, but stressed that the company doesn't feel precluded from selling products again to Iran's oil and gas sector: "We don't have a bilateral boycott of Iran. We're following all Norwegian foreign policy," he said" The company has received $6.3 million in revenue and benefits from the US government.  Their activities in Iran are currently active.  (The New York Times, "Profiting from Iran, and the US", 3/6/2010)

“Two European concerns—Wirth, from Germany, and Seli, from Italy—sold tunnel-boring equipment to Iran for its Ghomroud water project. Wirth’s contract was concluded after Germany’s export-control agency, BAFA, determined that the machines involved in this project, being intended only for civilian use, were not subject to embargo.

Overseeing the tunnel project, however, was Sahel Consulting Engineers, a company owned by the IRGC. Nor is this connection a secret. The website of Wirth’s subsidiary in Iran features images of the Ghomroud construction site. The sign welcoming visitors to the project bears the logo of the IRGC, and the same logo is visible above the tunnel entrance…

Once the digging is finished, though, the equipment belongs to the subsidiary businesses of the IRGC, which can do with them what they wish. Intelligence photographs have regularly indicated that much of Iran’s clandestine nuclear program is being built deep underground, in bunkers accessible by means of tunnels. The machinery and technology for constructing such tunnels can only have been provided by Wirth and Seli.” (Commentary Magazine, "The Iranian Shell Game," July-August 2008)

“Wirth and Seli – German and Italian companies producing sophisticated tunnel-boring machinery – have supplied their machines and technical assistance to IRGC companies, for instance. Their business was not subject to any restrictions or embargoes, yet intelligence reports have repeatedly suggested that much of Iran’s clandestine nuclear program is being built deep underground, in bunkers that are accessible through tunnels – tunnels which only such technology could build.” (Transatlantic Institute, "Iran's Deceptive Ways," May 2008) 

“German producer of tunnel boring machinery – proudly boasts on its website that ‘… a new water supply system is created in the Iranian mountains of Isfahan, Wirth machines are used.’ Indeed they are. The problem is that one of Wirth’s project clients in Iran is Sahel Consulting Engineers – a company owned by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). Wirth has so far declined to comment on the matter.” (BESA Center for Strategic Studies, “Iran's Deceptive Commercial Practices,” 4/15/08)

“The project management contract for South Pars phases 9 and 10 offshore Iran, was awarded Aker Kvaerner from Pars Oil and Gas Company in April. This contract, worth approximately USD 25 million, represents a breakthrough in Iran, which holds the world’s second largest oil and gas reserves.” (Aker Kvaerner O&G Group AS, Board of Directors Memo, January-June 2005)

“Aker Kvaerner will assist the national operator Pars Oil and Gas Company (POGC) in managing the USD 1.8 billion total contract (EPC) for the development project comprising phases 9 and 10 of the South Pars gas field located offshore Iran in the Persian Gulf. Aker Kvaerner has partnered up with the Teheran based, private engineering company Hirbodan for the contract

Aker Kvaerner has a history as a product and technology supplier in Iran, providing processing equipment, drilling equipment and wellheads. The new project management contract represents the first field development engagement for Aker Kvaerner in Iran. ‘This is a good project for Aker Kvaerner. Our track record on executing large projects and the teaming up with a competitive Iranian partner were important winning factors for the contract’, says Aker Kvaerner's Executive Vice President Mr. Simen Lieungh.” (EuroInvestor.com, “Breakthrough Contract in Iran: South Pars phases 9 & 10,” 4/27/05)

“Be it…a water-supply system in Iran – as an employee of Aker Wirth, you will be there as progressive technology is created and put to use in the field. And the fields of activity open to you at Aker Wirth are as diverse as our technologies and work sites.” (Aker-Wirth website)

"Statoil maintains an office in Iran. A spokesperson for the company said it continues to provide assistance to the National Iranian Oil Company on a gas drilling platform in the Persian Gulf. But, the spokesperson said, Statoil stopped all new exploration and drilling in Iran as of 2007, adding that the company has no plans to move forward on a license it has to drill in another area of the Persian Gulf."

From 2000-2009, the company was the recipient of 1.4 million acres of US gas/oil fields.  Their investments in Iran are currently active but with no further plans for new investments.  (The New York Times, "Profiting from Iran, and the US," 3/6/2010)

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"StatoilHydro (STL.OL) said on Tuesday it is considering pulling the families of its foreign workers out of Iran due to security concerns after Friday's presidential elections. StatoilHydro, which is part of the South Pars gas project, has 120 workers in Iran. About half are foreigners." (Reuters, "Statoil says may pull ex-pats' families from Iran," 6/16/09)

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"StatoilHydro is offshore development operator for phases 6, 7 & 8 of the South Pars gas and condensate field in the Iranian sector of the Persian Gulf. We have also engaged in onshore exploration and drilling activities. Exploration drilling on the Anaran field resulted in promising commercial discoveries in recent years. Work on this project is currently suspended. On Khorram-Abad, we have a commitment to conduct a seismic survey and to drill exploration wells." (Company Website, 7/13/09)

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"The enormous New York State Common Retirement Fund plans to divest $86.2 million in investments from nine companies doing business in Sudan and Iran...The decision comes after two years of reviewing these companies, the potential risk of the investments and, in some cases, humanitarian efforts in these countries. 'We don't expect our investments to benefit regimes that support genocide and terrorism,' said DiNapoli. The fund plans to divest out of $86 million in Gazprom (OGZPY), Inpex (1605.TO), Lukoil (LUKOY), Oil And Natural Gas Corp (500312.BY), OMV (OMVKY), Petroleo Brasilia (PBR), Statoil (STO), Wartsila OYJ and Sinopec Corp. DiNapoli said the firms were chosen because "they failed to respond or we were not satisfied with their responses" when asked to provide information to the fund on the investments and their risks." (Wall Street Journal, "NY Comptroller To Divest $86.2M In State Pension Fund Investments," 6/30/09)

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"U.S. outreach to foreign banks and to oil companies considering investing in Iran's energy sector has reportedly convinced more than 80 banks and several major potential oil-field investors to cease all or some of their business with Iran. Among them: Germany's two largest banks (Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank), London-based HSBC, Credit Suisse, Norwegian energy company StatoilHydro, and Royal Dutch Shell." (The Wall Street Journal, "How To Put The Squeeze On Iran," 11/13/08)

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"The U.S. State Department will review Norwegian oil and gas giant Statoil Hydros role in helping to develop Iranian natural gas to see if it violates a U.S. sanctions law against Tehran, a senior U.S. official told Congress on Wednesday. (Reuters, "US to review if Statoil violates Iran sanctions law," 7/9/08)

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"Three phases of the South Pars development handled by StatoilHydro ASA are now scheduled to reach full production mid-2009, two years behind schedule." (The Wall Street Journal, "Oil Majors Say US Restrictions Delay Iran Projects," 6/12/08)

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Listed by U.S. Government as doing business in Iran. (U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, List of Companies Doing Business With State Sponsors Of Terror, Removed from the internet in July of 2007) "GIANTS WITH A FOOT IN TEHRAN: Total, Shell, Statoil, BNP Paribas, Commerzbank, MTN, UPS, Linde, Technip, Nokia, Ericsson, Peugeot, Renault, OMV, Societe Generale, ENI, Mitsubishi, Sumitomo, Siemens, LG, Samsung, Bosch, Valeo, Nestle, Unilever, BAT, Japan Tobacco." (The London Times, "American pressure threatens UK firms," 5/27/06)

"Norway's Norsk Hydro ASA in September won a $107 million exploration-and-development contract for the Khorramabad oil block in Iran. Under the deal, Norsk Hydro will drill a minimum of three wells and acquire hundreds of kilometers of seismic data on the site within four years. And the Norwegian group is now trying to deepen its investment in the Azar oil field, part of the 3,500-square-kilometer Anaran block." (The Wall Street Journal, "U.S. Sanction Threats Make Little Headway," July 12, 2007) Listed by U.S. Government as doing business in Iran. (U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, List of Companies Doing Business With State Sponsors Of Terror, Removed from the internet in July of 2007)