European countries will be reluctant to seize "shadow fleet" ships carrying Russian flags, fearing a major escalation with Moscow.
A growing number of tankers loading Russian crude oil at Baltic, Black Sea, Arctic and Far East ports are now flying the Russian flag, in what appears to be a deliberate move by Moscow to prevent the seizure of “shadow fleet" tankers on the high seas.
Russia is amending legislation to protect and expand its tanker fleet.
'Dangerous' escalation comes as western nations increase raids on Russian ships suspected of evading sanctions
PARIS: France’s navy seized another tanker it said was linked to Russia’s “shadow fleet” on Thursday,...
Russia has used a flotilla of ageing tankers of opaque ownership to get around restrictions on its lucrative crude exports…
Western-insured vessels that are over 20 years old are taking Russian crude, via European waters, to the Suez Canal, data shows.
On December 15, the European Commission noted that over the past 18 months, the EU has blacklisted nearly 550 tankers allegedly…
