VOLGONEFT-105

The vessel is owned by the russian company Middle-Volga Shipping Company LLC (subject to Ukrainian sanctions), which is a supplier to the sanctioned Rosnefteflot JSC (under at least two contracts worth 94.4 million rubles) within the russian state procurement system. Rosnefteflot JSC is a part of the group of the sanctioned russian PJSC Rosneft Oil Company, a russian state-owned oil and gas company, one of the world's largest oil producers. The main activities of Rosnefteflot JSC are, in particular, chartering of the tanker fleet in favor of Rosneft, organization of river transportation in the interests of Rosneft in the Volga-Don, Azov-Don, Volga and Volga-Baltic basins.
The fleet of the tanker's owner includes sanctioned vessels.
The tanker carried out dark activities in the Kerch Strait area in April, May, June 2023, November 2024, and in November 2022, it carried out an STS cargo transfer with tanker IMO 9309576 (under USA, EU, and Swiss sanctions), affiliated with the sanctioned russian PJSC Sovcomflot, the largest state-owned shipping company in russia that services and supports offshore hydrocarbon production, transportation of russian oil, oil products, and liquefied natural gas, the main charterers of which are the largest oil and gas companies and traders in russia.