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

14:30 13.08.2024

Russia

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 July 2024 (see Table 1).

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In July 2024, 4 violations of the EU embargo on seaborne imports of Russian crude oil from the Black Sea were recorded.

Two were involved the delivery of crude oil to a transshipment point in the Laconian Gulf off the coast of Greece. Two direct voyages were made to the ports of the EU countries.

Shipowners from Greece and China performed these voyages.

In July 2024, a total of 580,047 tons of Russian crude oil were delivered to the EU in violation of the embargo, compared with 275,850 tons in June 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 July 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
04/07	NEW VISION Crude oil tanker	9804459	157617	Marshall Is	2018	RU NVS	2024-07-01 04:05	HR OMI	2024-07-07 19:34	Ship manager/Commercial manager NEW SHIPPING LTD-LIB 57A, Poseidonos Avenue, Moschato, 183 44, Piraeus, Greece. Registered owner STAVENTO SHIPOWNERS SA C/O: New Shipping Ltd 57A, Poseidonos Avenue, Moschato, 183 44, Piraeus, Greece
06/07	PASCHALIS DD Crude oil tanker	9765378	159812	Liberia	2018	RU NVS	2024-07-01 22:32	MT MAR	2024-07-09 10:06	Ship manager/Commercial manager DELTA TANKERS LTD 58B, Zefyrou Street, Palaio Faliro, 175 64, Athens, Greece. Registered owner NARISSA MARINE LTD C/O: Delta Tankers Ltd 58B, Zefyrou Street, Palaio Faliro, 175 64, Athens, Greece.
13/07	EUROINTEGRITY Crude oil tanker	9410648	105291	Liberia	2009	RU TAM TAMAN	No data. GPS spoofing	To the south of the Laconian Gulf, to the west of Kythira island	2024-07-15 01:58	Ship manager/Commercial manager EUROTANKERS INC 5th Floor, 99, Akti Miaouli, 185 38, Piraeus, Greece Registered owner GRECO MARINE SA C/O: Eurotankers Inc 5th Floor, 99, Akti Miaouli, 185 38, Piraeus, Greece.
30/07	ZAMBRA Crude oil tanker	9175078	157327	Panama	1999	RU TAM TAMAN	2024-07-25 07:52	To the south of the Laconian Gulf, to the west of Kythira island	2024-08-02 00:01	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 C/O: 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

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