Russia’s shadow fleet of oil tankers grows despite western sanctions
by Pjotr Sauer Russian affairs reporter from Environment | The Guardian on (#6RF1Z)
Poorly maintained and uninsured vessels transporting up to 70% of country's seaborne oil, says report
Russia's shadow fleet of oil tankers is expanding, according to research, transporting up to 70% of the country's seaborne oil despite western efforts to curb Moscow's wartime energy revenues.
The volume of Russian oil being transported by poorly maintained and underinsured tankers has almost doubled in a year to 4.1m barrels a day by June, according to a report published on Monday by the Kyiv School of Economics (KSE).
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