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This is not only geopolitics. It is a maritime safety and environmental emergency.

#Hormuz #MaritimeSecurity #DarkFleet #OilSpillRisk #ProtectOurSeas #EnergySecurity

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The seizures are also happening as Washington pressures New Delhi to stop taking Russian crude, as part of a deal to cut import tariffs on the South Asian nation. India said early last year that it wouldn't allow sanctioned tankers to discharge at its ports.
The coast guard didn't name the vessels it had seized, but shared photos of them in its post. The pictures matched past images of the Chiltern, Asphalt Star and Stellar Ruby that can be found on MarineTraffic, a ship-tracking intelligence platform.
Ship-intelligence platform TankerTracker.com identified the same vessels through their unique seven-digit IMO numbers.
All three ships were sanctioned by Washington last year for links to the Iranian oil trade.
Nobody responded to emails seeking comment at offices of the registered owners of the tankers as listed on the Equasis database. Calls made to the owners and manager of Chiltern and Asphalt Star were directed to voice mail.
Calls made to the owner and manager of Stellar Ruby were not answered.
The three vessels seized by the Indian Coast Guard were being escorted to Mumbai for further investigation, a spokesperson said on Monday.
The so-called shadow, or dark, fleet is a group of around 1,500 tankers that carry Russian, Iranian and Venezuelan oil around the world. Malaysian authorities released two aging tankers earlier this month that it had detained for conducting a ship-to-ship transfer of oil without permission.

The seizures are also happening as Washington pressures New Delhi to stop taking Russian crude, as part of a deal to cut import tariffs on the South Asian nation. India said early last year that it wouldn't allow sanctioned tankers to discharge at its ports. The coast guard didn't name the vessels it had seized, but shared photos of them in its post. The pictures matched past images of the Chiltern, Asphalt Star and Stellar Ruby that can be found on MarineTraffic, a ship-tracking intelligence platform. Ship-intelligence platform TankerTracker.com identified the same vessels through their unique seven-digit IMO numbers. All three ships were sanctioned by Washington last year for links to the Iranian oil trade. Nobody responded to emails seeking comment at offices of the registered owners of the tankers as listed on the Equasis database. Calls made to the owners and manager of Chiltern and Asphalt Star were directed to voice mail. Calls made to the owner and manager of Stellar Ruby were not answered. The three vessels seized by the Indian Coast Guard were being escorted to Mumbai for further investigation, a spokesperson said on Monday. The so-called shadow, or dark, fleet is a group of around 1,500 tankers that carry Russian, Iranian and Venezuelan oil around the world. Malaysian authorities released two aging tankers earlier this month that it had detained for conducting a ship-to-ship transfer of oil without permission.

#India seizes three tankers in first action against Dark Fleet: It’s the first time New Delhi has taken such action…and comes as the US and Europe lead an effort to get tougher on vessels moving sanctioned oil. archive.ph/YY1HL #DarkFleet #sanctions

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India Seizes Three Tankers in First Action Against Dark Fleet The Indian Coast Guard seized three tankers that it said were involved in oil smuggling, the first sign of the country getting tough on the so-called dark fleet.

4/4 Escortés vers Mumbai pour enquête, ces navires illustrent la pression croissante sur les flottes "grises" transportant du pétrole sous embargo. Une opération de police en mer qui envoie un signal fort aux opérateurs de navires sous-normes. 🏆
#MaritimeSecurity #DarkFleet #India #CoastGuard

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GISIS Circular Letter No.5112 - Communication from the Government of the Kingdom of Tonga -->
No international register; no vessel is entitelt to fly the flag of Tonga
#shadowfleet #darkfleet #tanker

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Dark Fleet Seeking Russian Protection as US Seizes Oil Tankers The dark fleet of tankers shipping illicit oil around the world is rushing to seek the perceived protection of the Russian flag after the US started seizing vessels involved in the Venezuelan trade.

5/5 Entre usurpation de pavillon et escortes navales, la sécurité maritime change de visage. La "flotte fantôme" n'a jamais été aussi exposée... ni aussi protégée. Un dossier brûlant pour la stabilité des eaux internationales. 🌍🏆
#Maritime #DarkFleet #Geopolitique

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Question whether #Russia has available suitable assets to escort #Shadowfleet / #Darkfleet / #Zombiefleet ...

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Dark Fleet tracking ⬇️ – Fittingly, an intro on "what is the Dark Fleet" was just published by @mercoglianos.bsky.social – www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DYt... – #DarkFleet #ruzzia #venezuela #oil #iran #shadowfleet

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"Es ist Zeit, es Russland mal zu zeigen": Trump jagt Putins Schattenflotte Mitten im Nordatlantik stoppen US-Spezialkräfte einen russischen Öltanker – live verfolgt von der Weltöffentlichkeit. Donald Trump greift die Schattenflotte des Kremls an – und setzt Wladimir Putin wi...

…solange #Trump und seine Aktionen sich gegen #Putin ’s #Russland, sein #Schattenflotte, die Mullah‘s im #Iran oder andere Dispoten Staaten richtet, bin ich bei ihm, aber ich traue ihm noch nicht… #USA #darkfleet www.t-online.de/nachrichten/...

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#SixFamilySpeaks #Sanctions #DarkFleet #Geopolitics
U.S. forces seized two Russian‑flagged tankers; the Marinera in the North Atlantic and the Sophia in the Caribbean, accused of smuggling Venezuelan crude.

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Russia Asks U.S. to Halt Pursuit of Tanker After Crew Claims Russian Flag, NY Times Reports Russia has formally requested that the United States cease its pursuit of an oil tanker fleeing Coast Guard vessels in the Atlantic Ocean, according to the New York Times. The...

4/4 Le Marinera devient un enjeu de souveraineté en haute mer. Ce cas souligne la fragilité du contrôle des navires "apatrides" et l'usage de pavillons de complaisance comme boucliers diplomatiques face aux inspections de l'US Coast Guard. 🌊 #MarineMarchande #DarkFleet #DroitDeLaMer #Geopolitique

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Un pétrolier fuyant les Caraïbes pisté par l’armée américaine au large de l’Irlande : saisie imminente ? Selon des responsables américains cités par « CBS News », les forces spéciales américaines se préparent à intercepter le pétrolier « Marinera » (anciennement « Bella 1 ») historiquement impliqué dans ...

4/4 Vers une saisie imminente ? Les mouvements de C-17 vers le Royaume-Uni suggèrent une opération musclée. Un test de force pour la souveraineté en haute mer et le contrôle des flux pétroliers sous sanctions internationales. 🛡️💨 #MaritimeSecurity #DarkFleet #USNavy #Geopolitique

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Venezuela’s Oil Trade Hits a Wall as Asia Flows Freeze and Chevron Becomes Sole Exit to the U.S. Venezuela’s oil exports to Asia have stalled for days as U.S. enforcement tightens, leaving #Chevron as the only steady outlet to the #USGulfCoast and pushing more cargoes into the #darkfleet trade. #oiltankers #sanctions #maritime

Venezuela’s oil exports to Asia have stalled for days as U.S. enforcement tightens, leaving #Chevron as the only steady outlet to the #USGulfCoast and pushing more cargoes into the #darkfleet trade. #oiltankers #sanctions #maritime

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Found news on #Vesseltracker with ref to #DarkFleet and then copy of #Belize registry of another vessel with that #IMO number by seach on Facebook 🤷‍♂️

@michellewb.bsky.social

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‘Scrapped’ Tanker Rises From the Dead: Inside Venezuela’s Expanding Zombie Fleet A 27-year-old crude tanker that was supposedly scrapped in 2021 is due to reach Venezuela late this week, according to ship-tracking data, in the latest example of how the South American country keeps...

#ZoombieTankers #Shadowfleet #Darkfleet

#Freesia1 Freesia 1

#US #USA #Venezuela

#GCaptain #Bloomberg

gcaptain.com/scrapped-tan...

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COLUMN | The Twelve Days of Christmas 2025: Seven investigators and the Dark Fleet, eight months and no US shipbuilding strategy, nine million for an 80-tonner in the Bourbon auction (part one of two)... If you are a regular reader, you know the score. If you are not, welcome, especially if you are working for a Russian-linked dry bulk company in Oslo.We are run

#BairdMaritime column on #Russia #Shadowfleet / #Darkfleet and drones ie #OsloCarrier #HavShipping #HavDolphin #HavSnapper including use of #Russia crew and shipyard.

@auonsson.bsky.social
@pa.nton.cx
@claudialanz.bsky.social
@puca.bsky.social

www.bairdmaritime.com/security/inc...

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Russia’s Arctic Shipping Route Turns Into “Dark Fleet” Corridor Used by 100 Sanctioned Vessels One third of Arctic shipping traffic along the Northern Sea Route involves sanctioned vessels of Russia’s shadow fleet, a new report warns. The figures include 38 sanctioned oil tankers, often poorly ...

One third of Arctic shipping traffic along the Northern Sea Route involves sanctioned vessels of Russia’s shadow fleet, a new report warns.

#Arctic #Bellona #DarkFleet #ShadowFleet #Russia #NSR #LNG @bellonaeu.bsky.social
www.highnorthnews.com/en/russias-a...

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How Dark-Fleet Ships Use A Digital Trick to Disappear—And How to Find Them An oil tanker seized by the U.S. this week reportedly used a technique that scrambled its location, but new advanced visual tracking can help expose such ships’ true coordinates

Happens with fishing fleets as well, www.scientificamerican.com/article/what... #ais #darkfleet #deceptive #evade #fakelocation #fishingvessels #oiltanker #realtimecoordinates #satelliteimagery #spoof #spoofing

@skytruth.org

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A Seized Oil Tanker and the Big Business of Dark Fleet Smuggling

A Seized Oil Tanker and the Big Business of Dark Fleet Smuggling

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/b...

#shipping #darkfleet #trade #supplychain

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They Droned Back Young journalists expose Russian-linked vessels circling off the Dutch and German coast

Cool story. The drone swarms visiting Europe come from Russia's dark fleet. These students 'droned back'.

www.digitaldigging.org/p/they-drone...

#darkfleet #OSINT #hybridwar

@henkvaness.bsky.social

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What we know about US seizure of oil tanker off Venezuela The US seizure of a crude oil ship is the latest in a series of escalations in the Trump administration's pressure campaign on Venezuela.

Hypocrite to go after a ship of the #DarkFleet of #Venezuela while refusing to go after the dark fleet of #Russia that funds the #Ukrainerwar of #Putin.
#Trump is after raw materials oil by regime change in #Venezuela and minerals from #Putin by the betrayal of #Ukraine
www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Benin Raises the Alarm: 33 Vessels Illegally Sailing Under Its Flag | African Security Analysis The Republic of Benin has uncovered a sophisticated maritime fraud network exploiting its national flag to conceal the identity of vessels linked to illicit global trade operations — particularly thos...

Update from #ASA #AfricanSecurityAnalysis

#Benin #Shadowfleet #Darkfleet #False #Russia

www.africansecurityanalysis.org/updates/beni...

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Dark Fleet Bunkering Highlights Sanctions System's Weakness The activities of two oilers which regularly refuel Russian dark fleet tankers in the Baltic are showing the imperfections and weaknesses of sanction...

#MaritimeExecutive article on #bunkering of #ShadowFleet #DarkFleet

#Rina #Zircone #FastBunkering #FBTrade
#Skaw #Skagen #DK #Denmark
#BalticSea #Gotland #SE #Sweden

maritime-executive.com/editorials/d...

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What OSINT hacks are YOU deploying against maritime threats ? Let's team up and expose them ! 🌊🔍

#DarkFleet #OSINT #MaritimeSecurity #PythonOSINT

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🚨Breaking : Sanctioned Russian dark fleet tanker Komander (IMO 9271585, ex Prudence) grounds in Suez Canal, halting global trade !

#DarkFleet #ShadowFleet #MaritimeSafety #OSINT #SuezCanal

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How a ‘dark fleet’ of tankers helped a Mexican cartel build a fuel-smuggling empire The Jalisco New Generation Cartel has mastered the use of tankers to smuggle fuel to Mexico. U.S. oil players are helping them. Reuters traces one ship's brazen journey.

🛢️ Dark Fleet Expansion: Mexico's Jalisco New Generation Cartel uses shadowy tankers for fuel smuggling, linked to U.S. oil traders sourcing and misdeclaring cargoes.

www.reuters.com/investigatio...

#DarkFleet #MaritimeSecurity #OSINT #ShadowFleet #FuelSmuggling

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🚨 I'll dedicate time to raising the alarm about Russia’s "dark fleet," whose operations threaten marine life and endanger sailors. #DarkFleet #MaritimeSafety 🌊⚓️
🔎 Working on a script to track ships on public sites l
Looking for tips, data sources, or open-source tools to collaborate on this !🛰️💻

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FEATURE | Inside the “dark fleet” fueling a Mexican cartel’s oil smuggling empire On the afternoon of March 8, a petroleum tanker named Torm Agnes entered the Port of Ensenada on Mexico’s Pacific coast carrying almost 120,000 barrels of diese

#DK #Denmark #DKBiz danish #Shipping company #Torm caught up in #Mexico #Cartel oil smuggling !

#Baird #BairdMaritime #Reuters
#DarkFleet #ShadowFleet

www.bairdmaritime.com/security/inc...

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China Joins Russia’s Shadow Fleet with First-Ever Dark LNG Ship-to-Ship Transfer Russia has carried out its first ship-to-ship (STS) transfer of liquefied natural gas (LNG) using so-called “shadow fleet” vessels, teaming up with a Chinese gas carrier. Satellite images and partial ...

Hat-tip @tankertrackers.com #TankerTrackers

#Perle CCH Gas #CCHGas

#Russia #China #LNG #STS #ShipToShip #Malaysia
#ShadowFleet #DarkFleet

gcaptain.com/china-joins-...

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Fraudulent Flags in Illegal Fishing: State Risks and Obligations Open-source vessel tracking would indicate that there are at least six Bermuda-flagged fishing vessels operating in jurisdictions outside of Bermuda...

Fraudulent flags and illegal fishing

#DarkFleet #ShadowFleet #RenegadeFleet

#UNCLOS #CARICOM
#IMO #UN
#Shipping #Maritime
#Fishing #Fisheries

@maritimekiwi.bsky.social
@mercoglianos.bsky.social

maritime-executive.com/editorials/f...

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