The Russian tankers involved in the schemes belong to businessman Vladimir Lisin’s Volga Shipping company, according to the Scheme project.
Russian tankers continue to export oil products after the ban on entry to EU ports. This was reported by the Radio Liberty Schema project.
Journalists analyzed the routes of Russian tankers in the Black Sea using the Marine Traffic and Equasis vessel monitoring systems and found two well-established schemes.
The first method is that tankers leave Russian ports, stop in the Black Sea near Romania, and there reload the oil products onto ships under the flags of EU countries for delivery to ports of other countries, including EU countries.
“Here, for example, is how Russian oil goes to Greece. On July 27, the Russian tanker Mekhanik Antonov, near the port of Constanta, transferred its cargo to the Maltese-flagged tanker Georgia (the (the ship’s owner is a Greek company).On July 28 and 29, Georgia received an additional cargo from the Russian vessel VF Tanker 8. VF Tanker 8 returned empty to Russia, and Georgian cargo was unloaded on August 10 in the same port as Agioi Theodoroi in Greece,” the investigation said. said.
The second method involves a storage tanker under the flag of Liberia, which is in the waters of Constanta (Romania) for the fifth month. It has been regularly replenished by Russian tankers since June of this year, and it reloads oil or oil products onto another ship, which calls at a European port and unloads, or continues the relay race , and the fourth ship in this chain calls at the port of an EU country.
The Russian tankers involved in the schemes are reportedly owned by Volga Shipping of businessman Vladimir Lisin, who topped the list of Russia’s richest people according to Russia’s Forbes in 2022.
Earlier it was reported about a significant decrease in Russian revenues from the export of petroleum products.
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