The EU will apply sanctions to the "shadow fleet" of Russia - Bloomberg

The new package of EU sanctions against Russia will apply to 11 vessels. The restrictions are aimed at the "shadow fleet" of the aggressor country, which is due to which Moscow is able to bypass the price restriction. EU Member States are going to approve restrictions on four fuel tankers, two oil tankers and a freight vessel. In total, 11 vessels from the "shadow fleet" of the Russian Federation should enter this "package". Bloomberg writes about it.

One of the ships that can be on the Black List is the Andromeda Star tanker, which in March was crashed in the Baltic Sea near the shores of Denmark and which found invalid European insurance during the inspection. These proposals, as noted, are part of the EU efforts aimed at terminating Russia with the help of a shadow fleet to bypass the oil price limits of $ 60 per barrel. The EU is also going to limit the activities of ships involved in the transportation of the defense sector goods.

Ships will be forbidden to access to European ports and anchor zones, complicate the logistics of their operation by prohibiting the involvement of companies from Europe to provide a number of services, including insurance, towing, loading and unloading ships, supply, change of crew, etc. In addition, sanctions will be applied to two gas storage facilities used in the project of PJSC "Novatek" from the transshipment of liquefied gas on the Kamchatka Peninsula.

We will remind, "shadow" vessels that transport sub -Russian oil oil are regularly refueling from a tanker, which is on an anchor near the Swedish island of Gotland and owns a company from Latvia. Focus also wrote that the Russian Sovkomflot remains a very significant operator of the maritime transport market and has a large number of Afraax tankers capable of transporting almost 700,000 barrels of oil.