Violations of the embargo on the imports of crude oil from Russia into the EU in July 2023 (database)

13:55 31.07.2023
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 2023 (see Table 1).

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In July 2023, 2 violations of the EU embargo on seaborne imports of Russian crude oil from the Black Sea were recorded.

All of them involved the delivery of oil to a transshipment point in the Laconian Gulf off the coast of Greece.

1 such voyage were made by tanker belonging to company from Greece, 1 – by a shipowner from Turkey.

A total of 222,316 tons of Russian crude oil were delivered to the transshipment point in the Laconian Gulf in violation of the embargo, compared with 1,134,445 tons in June 2023 and 1,554,020 tons in May 2023.

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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 2023

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

Port of departure

Actual Time of Departure

Port of destination

Estimated Time of Arrival

Shipowner

08/07

STEALTH HARALAMBOS

Crude Oil Tanker

9386536

113021

Marshall Is

RU TAM

TAMAN

ATD: 2023-07-01 23:00 LT (UTC +3)

GR LAKONIKOS GULF

ATA: 2023-07-09 08:55 LT (UTC +3)

Ship manager/Commercial manager SIGNAL PROJECTS LTD 110, Vouliagmenis Avenue, Glyfada, 166 74 Athens, Greece.

Registered owner TANK PASHA INC Care of Signal Projects Ltd , 110, Vouliagmenis Avenue, Glyfada, 166 74 Athens, Greece.

09/07

BUTTERFLY A

Crude Oil Tanker

9249130

109295

 

Liberia

RU KAVKAZ SOUTH ANCH

ATD: 2023-06-30 20:33 LT (UTC +3)

GR LAKONIKOS GULF

ATD: 2023-07-11 12:39 LT (UTC +3)

Ship manager/Commercial manager AQUILA SHIPOWNER SA Mazaya Plaza, Zuhal Caddesi 46, Cevizli Mah, Maltepe, 34846 Istanbul, Turkey.

Registered owner AQUILA SHIPOWNER SA Mazaya Plaza, Zuhal Caddesi 46, Cevizli Mah, Maltepe, 34846 Istanbul, Turkey.

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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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