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Arctic Shipping Lane Sees Surge in ‘Shadow Fleet’ Traffic, Totaling 100 Sanctioned Vessels Russia’s Arctic shipping lanes have become a corridor for the global shadow fleet of sanctioned oil and LNG tankers, raising safety, environmental, and geopolitical concerns.

Surge in #Arctic traffic with #Shadowfleet using the #NSR #NorthernSeaRoute

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‘Scrapped’ Tanker Rises From the Dead: Inside Venezuela’s Expanding Zombie Fleet A 27-year-old crude tanker that was supposedly scrapped in 2021 is due to reach Venezuela late this week, according to ship-tracking data, in the latest example of how the South American country keeps...

#ZoombieTankers #Shadowfleet #Darkfleet

#Freesia1 Freesia 1

#US #USA #Venezuela

#GCaptain #Bloomberg

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Russian Oil Stuck at Sea Booms as Tanker Logjams in Asia Expand By Julian Lee (Bloomberg) — Russia’s crude exports hit the highest in over 2 ½ years, but delays in offloading cargoes saw another jump in oil held on tankers, with a build-up of vessels anchored off ...

#Russia #Oil stuck at sea

#China #India #Asia

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Coast Guard Pursuing Defiant ‘Bella 1’ Tanker as U.S. Blockade of Venezuela Runs Into Reality The U.S. Coast Guard is waiting for additional forces to arrive before potentially attempting to board and seize a Venezuela-linked oil tanker it has been pursuing since Sunday, a U.S. official and a ...

#US #USA #USCG pursueing #tanker Bella 1 #Bella1

#Venezuela

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Ice-class LNG Tanker Lifts First Winter Cargo From Russia’s Sanctioned Arctic LNG 2 An Arc7 ice-class liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier has completed the first-ever winter pickup of LNG from Russia’s Arctic LNG 2 plant, a milestone for the project as its majority owner Novatek may ...

Winter deliveries #Russia #LNG #LNG2

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Sanctioned Tanker Links Russia’s Arctic Oil Trade to Venezuela for First Time A sanctioned oil tanker has for the first time established a direct geographic link between Russia’s Arctic “shadow fleet” and oil product exports to Venezuela, connecting two of the world’s most sens...

#Russia #Venezuela #Arctic #Hyperion

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China-Linked LNG Ship Docks at US-Sanctioned Russia Export Plant A liquefied natural gas tanker linked to a Chinese company docked at a US-sanctioned Russian export project for the first time, the latest step by Moscow and Beijing to strengthen energy ties and skir...

#Russia #China #Gazprom
#LNG #BalticSea

#GCaptain #Bloomberg

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U.S. Senator Questions Major Tanker Operators in Expanding Cartel Fuel Smuggling Crackdown U.S. Senator Ron Wyden has contacted seven maritime shipping companies as part of an inquiry into cartel-linked fuel smuggling between the United States and Mexico, asking the firms to explain their v...

Questions to seven #Tanker operators incl #Torm #Norden ( #DKBiz)

#GCaptain #Reuters
#Mexico #Cartel #Smuggling

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China Expands Arctic Container Shipping With Record 14 Voyages in 2025 China significantly expanded its use of the Northern Sea Route (NSR) in 2025, completing 14 container ship voyages between Asia and Europe, up from 11 such voyages in 2024 and seven in 2023. The lates...

Steady rise in #China vessels use of #NSR #NorthernSeaRoute #Arctic

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Russian Oil Tankers Cleave to Turkish Coast to Cut Drone Risks Oil tankers hauling Russian crude across the Black Sea are taking a roundabout route along the coastlines of Georgia and Turkey — a measure that might help them to reduce the risk of being targeted by...

#Tankers engaged in #BlackSea #Russia trade keeping close to #Georgia #Turkey coastlines

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France Launches Foreign Interference Probe After Malware Discovered on Mediterranean Ferry Remote-access malware discovered aboard an Italian-operated ferry in Sète has prompted arrests, an intelligence-led investigation, and fears of state-backed interference.

#FR #France investigating suspected #Malware on #IT #Italy #Ferry #Fantastic ( #GNV #MSC)

Foreign power and control of vessel mentioned.

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Russia Deploys All Eight Nuclear Icebreakers for First Time to Keep Arctic Export Routes Open Russia has, for the first time, deployed its entire fleet of eight nuclear-powered icebreakers simultaneously to maintain winter shipping lanes in the Gulf of Ob and the Yenisei Gulf, underscoring the...

#Russia going all-in to keep #NSR #NorthernSeaRoute open !

#GCaptain #Arctic

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Cargo Ship ‘Thamesborg’ Arrives at Turkey Shipyard For Repairs After Arctic Grounding The Dutch-flagged cargo ship Thamesborg has arrived at a Turkish shipyard to undergo repairs following a high-profile grounding in the Northwest Passage earlier this fall. In a statement to gCaptain, ...

#Thamesborg ( #Wagenborg) reached #Turkey shipyard for repairs after grounding in #Arctic #Canada

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Five-Year UK Legal Fight Over Car Carrier Cartel Nears End With $72M Settlement A five-year legal battle in the UK against major shipping companies involved in a car carrier cartel has concluded with a proposed £54 million (USD 72 million) settlement, bringing total...

#CCC #CarCarrierCartel #CarCarrier #MOL #NYK
#UK #London

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#Russia #LNG #Export hampered by #Ice

#Tanker #Buran IMO 9953509 #IMO9953509
#NorthernSeaRoute #NSR

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Chinese Hospital Ship Visits Jamaica As US Gunboats Ply Caribbean By Jim Wyss Dec 5, 2025 (Bloomberg) –A Chinese hospital ship quietly docked in hurricane-hit Jamaica this week, projecting soft power into the heart of the Caribbean where a US armada...

#China #softpower in #Caribbean
Hospitalship visits #Jamaica

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Senegal Tanker Blast Puts Spotlight on Turkish Operator’s Ties to Russia’s Dark Fleet Several tankers operated by Turkey’s Be?ikta? Likid, the operator of the Mersin, were sanctioned by Ukraine in the past for their involvement in ship-to-ship transfers linked to the so-called dark fle...

#GCaptain #Besiktas #Russia #Turkey #Mersin

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DHS Warns of ‘Unprecedented’ Chinese Presence in Arctic During Summer 2025 The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has raised concerns over a surge in Chinese military and research vessels in Arctic waters during 2025. The findings are part of a report on the trilater...

#Arctic #China #US #USA

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Flagless Tanker 'Kairos' Catches Fire in Black Sea After Suspected Mine Strike A tanker seemingly operating without a valid flag registration caught fire in the Black Sea on Friday after reporting an external impact approximately 28 nautical miles off the Turkish coast,...

#Kairos #Tanker #Shadowfleet #Russia #Turkey #BlackSea

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Navy and Coast Guard Keep Building Ships Before the Blueprints Are Finished Resulting in Delays, Cancellations The U.S. government is once again under fire for a long-standing shipbuilding habit: starting construction before designs are fully baked. The practice has repeatedly led to cost overruns, delays, and...

Is this the american way of doing things?

#GCaptain #US #USA #USN #USCG #Shipbuilding #Shipyard

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New Zealand Navy Ship Made Rare Transit Through Taiwan Strait This Month The New Zealand navy's largest ship, the oiler HMNZS Aotearoa, made a rare transit through the sensitive Taiwan Strait earlier this month, Defence Minister Judith Collins told Reuters.

#NZ #Navy #HMNZS #Aotearoa transiting #TaiwanStrait

#GCaptain #Taiwan #China

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The Satellite Imagery Revolution Reshaping Maritime Surveillance and Global Shipping By Paul Morgan (gCaptain) – A quiet technological revolution is unfolding high above the world’s oceans, and it could reshape maritime operations, compliance, and security in ways the industry has...

#EO #EnhancedElectroOptical #satellite imagery revolutionizing #surveillance

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#AIS #ShadowFleet #Compliance

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Space Race With China Drives Antenna-Building Boom In Arctic By Danielle Bochove and Thomas Seal Nov 22, 2025(Bloomberg) –Satellite operators are looking north. Way north. As the US, China and others compete in space, the need for fast and frequent communicatio...

#Russia #China #US #USA #Arctic
#Satellite #Communication

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Reuters Investigation Reveals China's Civilian Shadow Navy Practices for Invasion of Taiwan China is rehearsing for a potential invasion of Taiwan using a shadow navy of civilian cargo ships and ferries, according to a Reuters investigation that tracked vessel movements and analyzed satellit...

#China #Taiwan

#GCaptain #Reuters

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UK Tightens Grip on Russian LNG as Maritime Services Ban Takes Aim at Putin's War Economy The United Kingdom has announced sweeping new maritime sanctions targeting Russia’s liquefied natural gas exports, marking a significant escalation in efforts to cut off funding for Moscow’s war in Uk...

More #UK #UnitedKingdom #Sanctions against #Russia #LNG #Export

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The Shipping Mogul Who Carved a Route to China’s African Mining Prize When Sun Xiushun began to travel to Guinea just over a decade ago, he was an unknown shipowner desperate to stay in the aluminum game. He found the West African nation in the grip of an Ebola epidemic...

Article on #China inroads into #Africa

#GCaptain #Shipping #Maritime

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Russian 'Dark Fleet' LNG Carrier Carrying Sanctioned Gas Reappears Off South China Coast A liquefied natural gas tanker carrying sanctioned Russian gas has reappeared near China’s Hainan Island three weeks after a dark transfer. It is likely bound for the nearby Beihai terminal. The vesse...

#Shadowfleet #LNG #Tanker tracking of #CCHGas having been dark on #AIS

#Russia #China #Malaysia #STS #ShipToShip

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Russia's LNG 'Shadow Fleet' Stalls as Winter Nears, Vessels Idle or Turn Back After a flurry of activity over the past three months Russia’s LNG ‘dark fleet’ is struggling to keep its momentum with winter approaching. LNG carriers made 13 deliveries to China’s Beihai terminal s...

Update on #Russia #LNG #Tanker #ShadowFleet

#WinterIsComing

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