Western sanctions aimed to cripple Russia’s oil trade, but a hidden network of offshore firms, rogue traders, and aging ...

Ukraine's Parliament has passed a bill imposing sanctions on vessels of Russia's shadow fleet, according to MP Oleksiy Honcharenko's update on the bill's legislative card. According to Honcharenko, ...

Baltic coastal states are stepping up their legal enforcement measures to further pressure Russia’s continued use of a ...

The size of Russia’s so-called shadow fleet of oil tankers has grown from fewer than 100 vessels at the beginning of 2022 to between 300 and 600 by early 2025, depending on the counting method. Source ...

Since January 2025, six tankers have been struck by unexplained explosions shortly after entering Russian ports. Many ...

A blast on the Eco Wizard tanker in the Ust-Luga port is the sixth incident this year on a vessel linked to Russia.

BERLIN (Reuters) -Germany has pledged additional measures to further counter Russia's so-called "shadow fleet" operating in the Baltic and North Sea, the foreign ministry said on Tuesday in a ...

The Treasury Department is targeting vessels in Iran's "shadow fleet" and the operators of an Iran-Iraq oil smuggling network ...

The shadow fleet, a group of tanker ships used by the likes of Iran and Russia to sell oil on the global market despite Western sanctions, is growing. These ships often operate in a legal gray area.

It travelled alongside two vessels known to be part of Russia's "shadow fleet" - a network of tankers whose ownership can be obscured and are used to transport sanctioned oil products. The Russian ...

A Lithuanian start-up has successfully tested the Polaris free-space laser terminal at sea together with the navy. It is said ...

With hundreds of ships, Russia's shadow fleet may comprise approximately 10% of all ships carrying wet cargo around the world. It's estimated to carry around 1.7 million barrels of oil per day ...