Iranian Entity: Hafiz Darya Shipping Company

Entity Name:

Hafiz Darya Shipping Company

Also Known As:

HDS Lines
Hafiz Darya Shipping Lines Company
Hafiz Darya Shipping Co.
HDS
HDSLINES Co.
Hafiz Darya Shipping Lines Co.
HDSC

Program:

Military

Address:

- No 60. Ehteshamiyeh Square, 7th Neyestan Street, Pasdaran Avenue, Tehran, Iran
- 60, Ehteshamiyeh Square Nistan 7, Pasdaran Ave., Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran
- No.35, Ehteshamieh Sq, Neyestan 7, Pasdaran 1944833546
- No. 60, Ehteshamieh Sq., Neyestan 7 St, Pasdaran Ave, Iran

Phone Number:

98-21-26100738-39, 98-21-26100742-43, 98-21-26100746-47, 98-21-26100749 (Container Logistics & Intermodal Department), 98-21-26100751 (Chartering Department), 98-21-26100543 (Financial Department), 98-21-26100733 (Managing Director), 98-21-26100736 (Deputy Managing Director), 98 21 20100733

Fax:

98-21-26100740-41, 98-21-26100744-45, 98-21-26100748, 98-21-26100750 (Container Logistics & Intermodal Department), 98-21-26100734, 98-21-26100542 (Financial Department), 98 21 20100734

URL:

www.hdslines.com

E-Mail:

GM.AMCL@HDSLines.com
Info@hdslines.com
GM.EMCL@HDSLines.com
GM.AMEL@HDSLines.com
GM.CS@HDSLines.com (Container Logistics & Intermodal Department)
charter@HDSLines.com (Chartering Department)
gm.charter@HDSLines.com (Chartering Department)
financegm@HDSLines.com (Financial Department)
MD@HDSLines.com (Managing Director)
DyMD@HDSLines.com (Deputy Managing Director)

Text:

Added to the Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) list maintained by the U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on June 16, 2010, freezing its assets under U.S. jurisdiction and prohibiting transactions with U.S. parties, pursuant to Executive Order 13382, which targets proliferators of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and their delivery systems; designated for being a front company for Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL - see separate entity record) that was "aiding IRISL in evading sanctions," according to the U.S. Treasury Department; according to the U.S. Treasury Department, in late 2009, "HDS Lines assumed IRISL's containerized shipping operations and established shipping routes nearly identical to those formerly operated by IRISL," and "retained some IRISL officers as corporate members;"

Owner of the following vessels that appear on the U.S. Treasury's SDN list:

Sakas (IMO No. 9283007)
Sepanta (IMO No. 9284154)
Sepitam (IMO No. 9283033)
Sewak (IMO No. 9283021)
Simber (IMO No. 9284142)
Visea (IMO No. 9283019);

Ship manager of the following vessels that appear on the U.S. Treasury's SDN list:

Mekong Spirit (IMO No. 9118513)
Dandelion (IMO No. 9209336)
Dandle (IMO No. 9209348)
Silver Craft (IMO No. 9209350)
Valili (IMO No. 9270646)
Silver Zone (IMO No. 9270658)
Second Ocean (IMO No. 9349588)
Decker (IMO No. 9349667)
Decretive (IMO No. 9349679);

Operates the following shipping lines:

--
Asia Middle East Container Line (AMCL), visiting the ports of Tianjin, Qingdao, Shanghai, Ningbo, Kwangyang, Busan, Kaohsiung, Chiwan, Singapore, Port Klang, Dubai, and Bandar Abbas;

AMCL Vessels:

Second Ocean
Third Ocean
Dandle
Decretive
First Ocean
Tuchal
Decker;

--
Europe Middle East Container Line (EMCL), visiting the ports of Felixstowe, Hamburg, Antwerp, Le Havre, Malta, Damietta, Misurata, Jeddah, Bandar Abbas, and Dubai;

EMCL Vessels:

Visea
Silver Zone
Sepitam
Sepanta
Sewak
Sakas
Simber
Dandle;

--
Asia, Mediterranean, Europe Line (AMEL), visiting the ports of Shanghai, Ningbo, Chiwan, Laem Chabang, Singapore, Port Klang, Nhava Sheva, Karachi, Jeddah, Damietta, Malta, Valencia and Genoa;

AMEL Vessels:

Sahand
Hansa Narvik
Heike P.
Silver Craft
Palmary
Alexandra P.
Silver Zone
Dandelion
Sabalan
Daffodil;

Also operates the following Mediterranean feeder vessels:

Austria
Dania Rimini
Mekong Spirit
Consouth
Connorth
OS Bodrum;

Also operates the following Persian Gulf feeder vessels:

Taban
Abtin
Shayan
Samin
Shahed
Shalamcheh
Merjan
Awafi
Hanza India.

Shares an address with Kerman Shipping Co. Ltd., Bushehr Shipping Co. Ltd., Fifth Ocean GmbH & Co. KG, Sixth Ocean GmbH & Co. KG, and Heliotrope Shipping Ltd; reportedly shares an address with the "Irisl Club;" reportedly operates from the third floor of the Aseman Tower in Tehran, IRISL's headquarters; business registration document # 5478431, issued March 2009; IMO number 5878431; established in 2009.

Date Entered:

9/3/2010

Date Last Modified:

9/3/2010