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Investigate Russian oil detours

2022-09-23T18:23:01.331Z


INVESTIGATION - New buyer countries, new boats, new intermediaries, Russian crude continues to flow. The sanctions coalition intends to toughen the system, but above all does not want to stop the flows.


Funny things are happening on the seas of the globe.

In the middle of the Atlantic, 1500 km west of Portugal, in the Azores area, four boats disappear from radar screens.

At the same time and for at least forty-eight hours, from June 13 to 15.

Their transponder - the AIS signal, Automatic Identification System, tracked by satellite - was disconnected.

Three of them fly the Panamanian flag, the last is Liberian.

Three small tankers, the

Emily S

, the

Merope

and the

Skadi

, and a big one, the

Monica S

, gave themselves a discreet appointment, reconstructed by the analysis company Kpler, in a note published on September 7.

Based on her observations, she concludes that the three smaller vessels, which came from the Baltic,

"transferred their cargoes of oil from the Urals to the 'Monica S'"

.

The

Monica S

then proceeded east, and unloaded its cargo several weeks later in China.

A few days later, in the same area, the

Lauren II

received…

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Source: lefigaro

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