European and American shipowners have pocketed at least $6.3bn from selling hundreds of ageing tankers on to shell companies, from where they make their way into the shadow fleet, a new probe carried out by […]
Shipping companies from Western countries sold off discarded oil tankers that became part of Russia’s shadow fleet, according to a joint report by investigative news media from several European countries. According to the cross-country […]
Ship-to-ship transfers of Russian-linked oil have spiked dramatically this month in the wake of America’s largest sanctions package aimed at Russia’s shadow fleet. Data from maritime risk analytics firm Windward shows there has been a […]
Navibulgar The Bulgarian owner at the centre of a new cable cutting incident in the Baltic has denied its ship deliberately carried out the latest damage to subsea infrastructure in the region, something analysts are […]
San Marino, Guyana, Sierra Leone, Comoro Islands, Guinea Bissau and most notably Guinea are the flag states that stand out for their extraordinary fleet growth in the latest data compiled in Clarksons Research’s World Fleet […]
The UK is leading a bid to stamp out falsely flagged ships at the International Maritime Organization (IMO). In a submission to the IMO’s legal committee, backed by 21 other countries, the UK has counted […]
The number of vessels hit by sanctions has surpassed 1,000 with data from S&P Global Market Intelligence showing that more 800 of these ships do not have confirmed insurance. Moreover, the average age of sanctioned […]
The Joint Expeditionary Force (JEF) has activated an advanced UK-led reaction system to track potential threats to undersea infrastructure and monitor the Russian shadow fleet, following damage to a major undersea cable in the Baltic […]
A number of European nations have followed the lead taken by the UK in demanding insurance details from Russian-linked ships passing through their waters, something that is expected to put pressure on Russia’s exports through […]
Will Rose / Greenpeace The UK has imposed its largest wave of sanctions to date against Russia’s shadow fleet, including ships found not to be carrying correct insurance while transiting the English Channel. Alongside the […]
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