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India in Talks With Iran to Ensure Safe Passage for Six LPG Tankers

India’s government is focused on ensuring safe passage for six tankers carrying liquefied petroleum gas through the Strait of Hormuz in negotiations with Iran, according to people familiar with the matter.

The vessels are carrying a combined 270,000 tons of the cooking fuel, with the government prioritizing them over ships carrying crude oil and liquefied natural gas due to the acute shortage of LPG in the country, said the people, asking not to be named as the discussions aren’t public.

India gets about 90% of its LPG imports from the Middle East, and the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz is hitting restaurants, households and petrochemical producers who use it to make plastics. The latest diplomatic effort comes after New Delhi secured safe transit through the waterway for two tankers carrying a combined 92,000 tons of LPG, enough to meet roughly one day’s demand in the nation of more than 1.4 billion people.

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