Bloomberg: tankers with Russian oil idle in the Baltic Sea
29.01.2024 - 15:53
Five tankers with unsold Russian oil have been idle in the Baltic Sea for at least a week.
Four tankers with about 3 million barrels of Russian Urals crude oil have been standing by the export terminal in the port of Ust-Luga for at least a week. Another tanker has been idle for six days, writes Bloomberg.
None of the five vessels idle in the Baltic Sea are subject to sanctions. At the same time, the United States imposed sanctions on trading firms that rent ships.
According to the agency, before moving to Ust-Luga at the end of December, the Naxos tanker spent more than two weeks anchored with a full load near the export terminal in Primorsk.
Read also: How tanker companies invent new loopholes for transporting Russian oil.
The supply delays came at a time when the flow of another Russian oil, Sokol, was severely disrupted. Tankers with almost 12 million barrels of the grade intended for India are idle in the Pacific Ocean. Another 3 million barrels are on shuttle tankers waiting to be unloaded onto other vessels.
As previously reported by USM, tankers insured in Britain transport a third of Rosneft.
