shadow fleet

Russia's oil exports are becoming increasingly difficult to track as the tankers moving the barrels disappear from digital tracking systems. Moscow’s exports

A tense maritime incident unfolded today in the off the Estonian coast when Estonian naval forces attempted to detain the M/T JAGUAR, a crude oil tanker

The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced on Tuesday a sweeping action targeting nearly two dozen firms

The European Union must focus on a new sanctions package to suffocate Russia's economy and force President Vladimir Putin to end the war in Ukraine, France's

The UK government announced today its largest-ever sanctions package targeting Russia’s shadow fleet, with measures aimed at up to 100 oil tankers

The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced today a significant expansion of sanctions targeting Iran’s

Russia’s LNG shadow fleet continues to make moves in preparation for the upcoming Arctic summer shipping season. A second sanctioned LNG carrier has arrived

On Good Friday, an aging supertanker fully laden with oil and calling itself Varada arrived in the waters to the east of Malaysia after a two-month voyage from

Greek shipowners are returning to Russia's Urals oil market as the price slides below the Western price cap of $60 per barrel, allowing them to provide

By Aliaksandr Kudrytski Apr 25, 2025 (Bloomberg) –Kyiv detained a ship it says was part of Moscow’s “shadow fleet” which illegally exports

The European Commission has strengthened its maritime safety regulations by implementing new mandatory insurance reporting requirements for all vessels in EU

The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has imposed sanctions on China-based Shandong Shengxing Chemical Co., Ltd.,

The Estonian navy detained and boarded a Russia-bound oil tanker on an EU sanctions list on Friday, accusing it of sailing illegally without a valid

The U.S. Department of the Treasury has unveiled sanctions against a sophisticated maritime network responsible for smuggling hundreds of millions of dollars

After more than nine months at sea sanctioned LNG carrier East Energy (formerly Asya Energy) has pulled into a Zhoushan-based shipyard, likely to undergo

Russia has apparently turned the lights back on at its sanctioned Arctic LNG 2 plant. Images taken by the European Sentinel 2 satellite reveal flaring at both

VLCC specialist Tankers International is projecting effective vessel supply growth of only 1% in the next three years due to the declining usable capacity of a

A cargo of Russian crude that was on a ship rejected by Indian port authorities is now being transferred to another tanker, ship-tracking data show, a sign of

Germany has confiscated a decrepit tanker found adrift off its northern coast in January that is believed to be part of a shadow fleet used by Russia to

The delivery of a two-million-barrel cargo of Russian oil to China took seven times longer than it would have done prior to a round of US sanctions imposed on