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2025-12-16 Caribbean-Latin America

Supertankers Bound For Venezuela Make U-Turns, Fearing US Interdiction, As PDVSA Hit By Cyberattack

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1 Federalist - Trump’s Oil Tanker Seizure: Another Shocking And Unprecedented Act That Isn’t Shocking Or Unprecedented

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Posted by Besoeker 2025-12-16 04:29|| 2025-12-16 04:29|| Front Page Top

2 This changes the math in Cuba as well.

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Posted by Jairong+Scourge+of+the+Gepids2435 2025-12-16 07:47|| 2025-12-16 07:47|| Front Page Top

4 RETRO-2023
Number of tankers operating in dark fleet tops 1,000: Vortexa

Quantum Commodity Intelligence – The number of tankers that have operated in the opaque market between January 2021 to March 2023 and are still active has reached 1,000, according to analytics and tanker tracking company Vortexa.

Most prominently, Russia now accounts for over 50% of the so-called 'dark fleet' total, operating 509 crude and refined products vessels between early December when EU sanctions first kicked in and 5 February.

The report also found Iran and Venezuela have 198 and 136 active tankers operating in their respective markets from January 2021 to March 2023, with the combined level accounting for 34% of the total, which is also referred to as the 'ghost fleet' in acknowledgement that transponders are typically kept switched off.

In addition, there are 157 active ships which operate on behalf of more than one country, accounting for 16% of the total fleet, while 125 tankers have switched from Iran and Venezuela to Russia.

Vortexa said it tracked 745 tankers which carried Iranian, Russian and Venezuelan crude, condensate and products in Q1 2023, a 300% y-o-y increase, while Russian carriers accounted for 80% of all opaque market tanker activity in Q1, a 50% increase on Q4 2022.

Posted by Skidmark 2025-12-16 07:47|| 2025-12-16 07:47|| Front Page Top

5 ‘Ghost ships’ ferrying illicit oil have sailed into Trump’s crosshairs

Posted by Skidmark 2025-12-16 08:34|| 2025-12-16 08:34|| Front Page Top

6 Nothing new, just what contraband is being stopped.

Posted by Procopius2k 2025-12-16 11:16|| 2025-12-16 11:16|| Front Page Top

7 Not being an international trade guy, is the risk of getting blown up considered a tariff? Or does that go under Maintenance & Depreciation?

Posted by SteveS 2025-12-16 17:04|| 2025-12-16 17:04|| Front Page Top

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