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 |
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. |
|
08/06 |
PETRONILLA |
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 |
|
30/06 |
ZAMBRA |
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. |
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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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