Russian Crude Oil Imports to the EU Embargo: Database of July 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 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 |
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. |
06/07 |
PASCHALIS DD |
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. |
13/07 |
EUROINTEGRITY |
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 |
30/07 |
ZAMBRA |
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. |
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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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