After the diplomatic pressure of Gabon and Barbados, the registration of Russian tanks carrying oil exceeded the western penalties were canceled.
The Kremlin’s attempt to hide the “shadow” armada from western penalties will tolerate another failure. Gabon and Barbados ordered to remove their flags from company tanks Comflot -Russia’s largest -navigated operator, which, before a full -scale war, has the largest armade of Aframax class tanks worldwide. This was announced by the analyst on the shipping of Michelle Visa Bokmann to Platform X.
More than 20 years Comflot He used Liberian flags, but after his ships began to fall on the US penalties list in 2023, the company began searching for new constituents. At first it was Gabon, who had agreed to register tanks that brought Russian oil to the penalties. But after diplomatic pressure, the country canceled the registration of ships.
The tanks registered under the Barbados flag, however, they did not last long: due to British penalties applying the registers used by Barbados, the registration was canceled.
Currently, three tanks – Mirabel, Primavera And Carma – We received a Postcript port in Oman. This coincides with a visit to Sultan Oman Haisam Ben Tarik Al in Russia on April 22. According to analysts, the tanks under the Oman’s flag were a rarity: Outside 129 ships registered in the country, only three tanks, and all of them included Comflot.
In addition to Oman, the company’s tanks also recorded under the flags of the Comor Islands, San Tome and Principi, as well as the Sierra Leone.
Comflot It has been under the penalties of the USA, EU and Great Britain since 2022. In January, Joe Biden’s administration added that restrictions on 69 company ships, including 54 tankers for oil and oil products and four gas carriers. And in February, the subsidiary of the SKF Arctic and 74 other vehicles associated with the Russian shadow fleet fell into penalties in Europe.
Note that in 2024, Russia brought more than 60% of the sea oil export with TF tanks, especially 78% of raw oil and 37% of oil products.
As you know, in January the United States imposed a huge -scale penalty against oil from Russia. 184 tanker is included in the list of penalties, of which the Comflot company courts.
Earlier, Germany confiscated the eventin oil tanker, which was walking under the Panama flag and part of Russia’s “Shadow Fleet”. The cost of the confiscated ship of the ship is about 40 million euros.
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