Dubai: A British-flagged oil tanker seized by Iran was seen outside Dubai's Port Rashid on Saturday a day after Iran released it.
The ship, the Stena Impero, set sail from Iran Friday morning arriving at an anchorage outside Dubai's Port Rashid in the United Arab Emirates just before midnight.
It was expected to head into port early Saturday afternoon.
The tanker's Swedish-based ship-owning company Stena Bulk said the crew would disembark in Dubai for medical checks and debriefing and to spend some time with their families.
Iran seized the ship in July as it passed through the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf through which 20 per cent of all oil passes.
The Stena Impero's seizure came after authorities in Gibraltar, a British overseas territory, seized an Iranian supertanker carrying $130 million in crude oil on suspicion it was breaking European Union sanctions by taking the oil to Syria.
Gibraltar later released the tanker after it said Iran promised the ship wouldn't go to Syria.
The ship later sat off the Syrian coast angering Britain. Iran hasn't said who purchased its 2.1 million barrels of crude oil.
Britain responded to Iran's release of the Stena Impero on Friday by accusing Tehran of trying to disrupt freedom of navigation.
