Deadly Explosion off Nigeria Points to Threat From Aging Oil Ships Around the World October 31, 2023 By Helen Wieffering and Grace Ekpu OKITIPUPA, Nigeria (AP) – It was the dead of night when the ship caught fire, Patrick Aganyebi remembers, but the...
Oil Tanker Adrift in Indian Ocean Is Latest Reminder of Dangers of Shadow Fleet October 11, 2023 By Alaric Nightingale and Chandra Asmara A 26-year-old oil tanker that’s moving fuel for Russia drifted for two days in a busy shipping lane in the...
Indonesia Seizes Iranian-Flagged Tanker Suspected of Illegal Oil Transfer July 11, 2023 By Stefanno Sulaiman and Fransiska Nangoy Indonesia’s coast guard said on Tuesday it seized an Iranian-flagged supertanker suspected of involvement in the illegal transshipment of crude...
Russia-Linked Oil Tanker Fleet Vanishes Even Faster Than It Grew July 11, 2023 By Julian Lee and Alex Longley A fleet of tankers that sprouted up out of nowhere to keep Russia’s oil moving has disbanded even faster than...
Russia’s Aging, Dark Fleet of Oil Tankers Gets Infusion of Newer Ships July 3, 2023 By Alex Longley and Serene Cheong An armada of tankers ferrying sanctioned oil around the globe is starting to get younger, bucking a months-long trend of...
Singapore Detains Record Number of Oil, Chemical Tankers as Dark Fleet Grows June 1, 2023 By Alex Longley Singapore’s detentions of oil and chemicals tankers have surged since early last year, highlighting growing concerns over the environmental and...
What a Dark Fleet Tanker Looks Like: 23 Defects, Eight Different Names May 31, 2023 By Alex Longley A giant oil tanker that was detained in China failed its safety inspection on more than 20 counts, spotlighting the...
An Oil Tanker Ablaze in South China Sea Is Warning of Global Problem May 8, 2023 By Alex Longley and Yongchang Chin Off the coast of Malaysia, in one of the world’s busiest shipping channels, an explosion on board the aging oil...
Burning Oil Tanker off Malaysia Rings Alarm Bells About Shadow Fleet May 2, 2023 By Ann Koh Three crew members are missing from a Gabon-registered tanker that caught fire on Monday in the South China Sea, a...
Ship Insurers Warn of Russian Oil Price Cap Evasion, Risks of Growing ‘Dark Fleet’ April 27, 2023 By Jeslyn Lerh and Muyu Xu A rise in spot prices for Russian crude oil to above the $60 per barrel cap imposed by western powers...