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...The vessels, which are North Korean-flagged and classified as oil products tankers, all visited the same berth operated by a Russian oil company at Vostochny Port, where they appeared to load....
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...Oil tankers may also wash cargo tanks between loads, or fill empty ones for ballast, producing oily water that needs disposal....
...“The company would have had to proceed with the case for years and years, incurring a lot of costs, keeping the company in deadlock for an indefinite period of time and all of this, for a very uncertain...
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...The threat in the Middle East now “encompasses significantly more vessels”, said Daniel Mueller, an analyst at Ambrey, a maritime security company....
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...The US has imposed sanctions on two companies shipping Russian oil, in its first enforcement of measures designed to choke off revenues to the Kremlin as continues its full-scale invasion of Ukraine....
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...He pointed out that bulk carriers and tankers traded in a similar way to taxis, travelling wherever in the world customers needed cargo delivered....
...The company said late on Thursday that it had received no communication from the vessel since it was boarded. The ship is a “Suezmax” tanker, the largest kind that can use the Suez Canal fully laden....
...The ship is owned by Gortal Shipping, a finance company affiliated with Zodiac Maritime, a company controlled by Israel’s Ofer family....
...A shadow fleet of companies with opaque ownership has stepped in to transport Russian oil, buying up older and cheaper tankers, which large oil companies often consider scrapping after 15 years of wear and...
...In a memo to customers on Friday, Maersk Tankers, a separate group that operates one of the world’s largest product tanker fleets, also cited the “rapidly escalating” security situation....
...According to official records, the SCF Primorye is managed by Sun Ship Management, a Dubai company already sanctioned by the EU and UK for being part of Sovcomflot, the state-backed Russian tanker fleet....
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...Blue Sparrow missiles have “performed flawlessly in its missions so far”, according to its producer, Israeli defence company Rafael....
...The person added that the tankers could proceed along the route at any time....
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...This is all very reminiscent of the “tanker war” that lasted from 1984 to 1988 during the Iran-Iraq war, as both sides tried to stop each other’s oil trade by attacking tankers heading for the enemy’s ports...
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