Three tankers containing more than 2 million barrels of Russian oil are stuck in waters off eastern China.
These ships cannot enter the ports due to sanctions from the United States of America. These vessels, like many others, are subject to the most aggressive package of measures aimed at Russian oil exports since the invasion of Ukraine in early 2022. This was reported by Bloomberg.
It is noted that the Huihai Pacific tanker is scheduled to arrive at the port of Dongjiakou in Shandong province on January 15 after loading almost 770 thousand people. barrels of ESPO oil from the Russian Pacific port of Kozmino at the beginning of the month. However, over the weekend the ship changed course and is now in the open sea, loaded with oil.
Another Mermar ship was sailing from Kozmin carrying more than 755,000 barrels of oil and was due to call at Yantai port this week. However, this tanker is waiting offshore again.
The third vessel, Olia, containing almost 709 thousand barrels of oil, was also heading to Yantai, but is now in the Yellow Sea.
Earlier it was reported that an out-of-control Russian tanker was drifting north of the island of Rügen in the Baltic Sea. There are about 99 thousand people on board the ship. tons of oil.
Source: Bloomberg
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