ULUC KA

The vessel is involved in the export of russian oil from the port of Novorossiysk in the Black Sea to Turkish ports during the G7 and EU oil embargo and price-car policy. In 2025, the tanker calls at russian ports with oil terminals, in particular at the Sheskharis terminal (Novorossiysk), which is a transshipment complex, the end point of the main pipelines of Chernomortransneft JSC (TIN 2315072242, under USA sanctions), a subsidiary of the sanctioned russian Transneft PJSC (TIN 7706061801). In 2025, the tanker resorts to conducting dark activities near the TOT of Crimea of Ukraine, in the Kerch Strait area.
In March and April 2023, the tanker was involved in the export of several batches of oil products from the russian port of Tuapse, the shipper of the cargo was the sanctioned Rosneft, the recipient was Gms Trading Middle East DMCC (UAE), founded on February 16, 2022. There is a production complex in Tuapse belonging to the sanctioned Rosneft - the Tuapse Refinery with a marine terminal.
The vessel is also involved in transshipment of russian oil in the area of several dozen nautical miles southeast of the port of Constanta (Romania) through bunkering with the tanker ‘New Trust’ (IMO 9274812), affiliated with the Greek company New Shipping Ltd, which, in turn, is involved in bunkering with russian tankers exporting oil products from russian ports in the Black Sea. Thus, the vessel has been bunkering at sea near the port of Constanta, in particular with the tankers ‘Dmitry Pokrovsky’, ‘VF Tanker 3’, ‘VF Tanker 4’, ‘Caspian Stream’, ‘Andropov’, which sailed from the ports of Temryuk and Novorossiysk.