“Six Russian oil tankers still under construction at Russia’s Zvezda shipyard were hit by US sanctions imposed last week.”, — write: epravda.com.ua
Six Russian oil tankers still under construction at Russia’s Zvezda shipyard were hit by US sanctions imposed last week. Reuters writes about it. It is said to be the first time Washington has banned tankers before they even put to sea, let alone carry sanctioned cargo. Sanctions imposed last week sent oil prices soaring and tanker costs up as the outgoing Biden administration moved to hurt Russian oil exports and thwart Moscow’s efforts to build its own fleet.Advertisement: Six tankers under construction at the Zvezda plant, were among the 183 vessels that were hit. Among them are “Nursultan Nazarbayev”, “Aleksandr Beggrov”, “Aleksii Bogolyubov” and three more vessels, the names of which have not yet been named: “Zvezda 131080”, “Zvezda 131060” and “Zvezda 131040”. According to the text of the sanctions, the buyer of the ships “Alexander Beggrov” and “Alexei Bogolyubov” is the Russian company “Sovcomflot”, and the buyer of the other four is the shipping division of “Rosneft” “Rosnefteflot”. Both buyers are also under US sanctions. Reminder:Advertisement: The US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control has imposed sanctions against the two largest oil companies of the Russian Federation, Gazprom Neft and Surgutneftegaz, as well as ship insurance providers Ingosstrakh and Alfastrahovanie. According to the Financial Times, the measures include blacklisting 183 “shadow fleet” vessels involved in the export of energy resources from Russia.