Russian Oil Tankers Behave Strangely After Latest US Sanctions
- Tankers appear to halt cargo switch in waters south of Greece
- US, allies intensifying oil and shipping sanctions on Russia
The ships seemed to abandon a ship-to-ship oil cargo transfer that they were undertaking in the Laconian Gulf, an expanse of water to the south of Greece.
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Two oil tankers appeared to stop what they were doing off the coast of Greece just a few days after the US Treasury imposed fresh sanctions on 14 Russian ships, another sign of how a toughening of western measures is disrupting Moscow’s petroleum trade.
The NS Creation and the Zaliv Amurskiy seemed to abandon a so-called ship-to-ship oil cargo transfer that they were undertaking in the Laconian Gulf, an expanse of water to the south of Greece, ship-tracking data compiled by Bloomberg show.