Russia's Shadow Tanker Fleet

By Alaric Nightingale and Thomas Gualtieri (Bloomberg) — A United Nations agency that oversees shipping raised concerns about the shadow fleet that has

By Bloomberg News (Bloomberg) — Russia still relies on Western insurers to cover more than half of the tanker fleet that exports its oil, according to

By James Stavridis (Bloomberg) Most people focus on the land and air aspects of the war in Ukraine, naturally enough — they are vivid and constantly

By Asad Zulfiqar Mar 26, 2023(Bloomberg) –The oil tanker Turba normally should have been melted down by now.  The 26-year-old vessel hasn’t

By Jonathan Saul LONDON, March 23 (Reuters) – An oil tanker runs aground off eastern China, leaking fuel into the water. Another is caught in a

By Bloomberg News (Bloomberg) –Russian companies got far more money from selling the country’s oil than previously thought in the weeks that

By Asad Zulfiqar and Alex Longley (Bloomberg) — A $2.2 billion fleet of oil tankers has been assembled to keep Russian crude and fuels exports

By Chunzi Xu and Prejula Prem (Bloomberg) — First, a small armada of oil tankers emerged to help Russia beat sanctions. Now hundreds of fuel vessels are

By Elizabeth Low (Bloomberg) — There’s been a rise in shipping practices used to move Russian crude and oil products that are aimed at deceiving

By Julian Lee (Bloomberg) — Russia assembled a huge fleet of tankers to beat western sanctions. They’re struggling to get the job done, writes

By Jack Wittels (Bloomberg) –For decades, a steady stream of ocean tankers has filed back and forth between a small cluster of ports in northwest

By Archie Hunter, Alix Steel and Grant Smith (Bloomberg) — The “shadow fleet” of ships that transport Russian oil around the world has expanded to