A Gas Carrier Faking Its Location Helps Russia Avoid Sanctions
- Deck appearance and dimensions match a dark fleet ship
- Moscow is assembling LNG vessels to circumvent restrictions
Source: Bloomberg
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A liquefied natural gas tanker that’s docked at a sanctioned Russian gas facility has no known insurer, is managed by a little known Indian company and is pretending to be somewhere else.
Samir Madani, co-founder of TankerTrackers.com, identified the ship recently docked at the Arctic LNG 2 export plant as the Pioneer vessel, citing deck appearance and dimensions. He also said it was sending signals showing it’s 1,300 kilometers (800 miles) away, a move known as spoofing that’s a classic hallmark of the shadow fleet.