SH Express

It is allegedly involved in a scheme to steal Ukrainian grain from the TOT of Ukraine.
Between 22 and 26 September 2023, after approaching the Kerch Strait in the Black Sea, the vessel switched off its AIS transponder and continued to move towards the Sea of Azov, where it docked with the vessel STK-1003 (IMO 8326058) to load grain of Ukrainian origin, which had been exported from the temporarily occupied port of Mariupol.
After that, the ‘SH Express’ vessel proceeded to deliver the grain to the port of Tripoli (Lebanon).
At the same time, there are signs of links between this vessel and russian/related entities through the management of the vessel. The commercial manager of the ‘SH Express’ vessel is Romarine Europe Ltd, a company registered in Liberia, with an office in Greece at the following address: 1st Floor, 11, Agiou Spyridonos Street, 185 35, Piraeus. At the same time, this company also operates another vessel, the ‘Bella’ (IMO 8418356), which has repeatedly called at the seaports of the TOT of Crimea in violation of Ukrainian legislation. In particular, in August 2019, the vessel ‘Bella’ was moored at the grain terminal of the stevedoring company ‘Avlita’ in the closed port of Sevastopol, where the vessel was loaded, and subsequently sailed to Libya. The vessel ‘Bella’ was also involved in the export of grain from the port of Sevastopol (TOT Crimea) to Syria with the AIS signal switched off, the delivery of ilmenite to the port of Feodosia (TOT Crimea), and the export of grain from the ports of Kerch and Sevastopol to Greece.

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Constanta (Romania), Gulluk (Turkey), Izmit (Turkey), Novorossiysk (russia), Samsun (Turkey), Tuapse (russia), Zeytinburnu (Turkey), Sheskharis (russia), Tripoli (Lebanon), Abu Qir (Egypt), Poti (Georgia), Varna (Bulgaria), Gelendzhik (russia), Agigea (Romania)