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Russian Crude Oil Imports to the EU Embargo: Database of June 2024 Violations

The Monitoring Group of BlackSeaNews
and the Black Sea Institute of Strategic Studies

The Monitoring Group of the Black Sea Institute of Strategic Studies and BlackSeaNews reports on the results of its own monitoring of violations of the embargo on seaborne imports of Russian crude oil into EU countries in June 2024 (see Table 1).

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In June 2024, 3 violations of the EU embargo on seaborne imports of Russian crude oil from the Black Sea were recorded.

They were involved the delivery of crude oil to a transshipment point in the Laconian Gulf off the coasts of Greece and Malta.

Shipowners from China, Turkey and Marshall Islands performed these voyages.

In June 2024, a total of 275,850 tons of Russian crude oil were delivered to the EU in violation of the embargo, compared with 157,327 tons in May 2024.

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Table 1. Tankers that transported Russia’s crude oil in violation of the embargo from Russian ports on the Black Sea to EU countries in June 2024

Data on shipowners and operators — from www.equasis.org
The first column of the table shows the date of a vessel's passage from the Sea of Marmara through the Dardanelles to the Aegean Sea

#

Name

IMO

DWT

Flag

Year built

Port of departure

Actual Time of Departure

Port of destination

Estimated Time of Arrival

Shipowner

03/06

PONE / ex Beks Iron
Crude Oil Tanker

9306562

69523

Guinea-Bissau

2005

RU TAM TAMAN

2024-05-27

LAKONIKOS GULF
 

2024-06-04 18:35  

Ship manager/Commercial manager TOKYO GEMI ISLETMECILIGI AS Daire 55, Kat 15, Beybi Giz Plaza, Maslak Meydan Sokak, Maslak Mah, 1, Sariyer, 34398 Istanbul, Turkey.
Registered owner IRON MARITIME & TRADING INC Care of Tokyo Gemi Isletmeciligi AS , Daire 55, Kat 15, Beybi Giz Plaza, Maslak Meydan Sokak, Maslak Mah, 1, Sariyer, 34398 Istanbul, Turkey.

08/06

PETRONILLA
Crude oil tanker

9292838

49000

Panama

2005

RU TUA

2024-06-05 03:30  

MALTA OPL ANCH

2024-06-11 07:41

Ship manager/Commercial manager IMZA MARINE DENIZCILIK AS Akasya Sokak, Postane Mah, 5, Tuzla, 34070 Istanbul, Turkey
Registered owner PETRONILLA SHIPPING CO Trust Company Complex, Ajeltake Road, Ajeltake, Majuro MH 96960, Marshall Islands.

30/06

ZAMBRA
Crude oil tanker

9175078

157327

Panama

1999

RU TAM

2024-06-26 22:35  

LAKONIKOS GULF

2024-07-02 14:29  

Ship manager/Commercial manager STELLAR OCEAN LTD Room 20, 7th Floor, Block B3, Tuen Mun Industrial Centre, 2, San Ping Circuit, Hong Kong, China.
Registered owner ZAMBRA SHIPPING GROUP LTD Care of Stellar Ocean Ltd , Room 20, 7th Floor, Block B3, Tuen Mun Industrial Centre, 2, San Ping Circuit, Hong Kong, China.

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This article has been prepared with the support of the European Union in Ukraine. The content of the article is the sole responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily reflect the position of the EU