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The tanker is involved in the export of russian oil, violating the G7 and EU oil embargo on russian oil in January 2024. In violation of the oil embargo, the vessel transported russian crude oil from the port of Novorossiysk in the Black Sea to the Laconikos Gulf, Greece in January 2024. According to Kpler, on January 28, 2024, the tanker BLUE in the Laconikos Gulf of Greece carried out an STS transfer of URALS crude oil exported from the port of Novorossiysk, handing it over to the vessel LIGERA (IMO 9237072). On January 09, 2024, the LIGERA was recorded by the MarineTraffic ship spotter off the coast of Crete in ballast with a draft of 11.3 m. On January 10, 2024, the tanker sailed to the Laconikos Gulf, where it made an STS transfer on the same day, receiving URALS oil from the vessel NAUTILUS (IMO 9434890) in the Laconikos Gulf in Greece. According to Kpler, NAUTILUS was loaded with 729 thousand barrels of Urals oil from the port of Ust-Luga. The second STS transfer to LIGERA took place on January 28, 2024 in the Laconian Gulf from the BLUE vessel loaded with oil in the port of Novorossiysk. According to Kpler, LIGERA, loaded with russian oil, concealed information about the change in the ship's draft and headed to Venezuela, where it was detected an STS transfer of oil to the MORNING SUN (IMO 9110183) between February 28 and March 1, 2014, which delivered 600 thousand barrels of russian oil to the Cardon refinery in Venezuela on March 2, 2014.
The international public organization Greenpeace refers to the tanker as a shadowy fleet of tankers transporting russian oil around the world and threatening the environment.
Oil exports from russia are the most important source of income for the regime of the aggressor country to finance the war against Ukraine. From February 2022 to November 22, 2024, russia earned almost 546 billion euros in oil export revenues (69% of all fossil fuel export revenues). In 2023, about a third of all tax revenues in russia came from the sale of oil and gas. The tax on oil production collected by the russian federation in 2023 amounted to 8.9 trillion rubles, or 31% of total federal revenues. According to the CREA data for October 2024, russia's revenues from crude oil exported by sea amounted to 210 million euros per day, 83% of the total volume of russian marine crude oil was transported by shadow tankers, while tankers owned or insured in countries that impose price restrictions accounted for 17% of the total value of russian oil exported in October.
Shadow fleet of russia continues to generate multibillion-dollar revenues for the kremlin bypassing sanctions, disguising its activities under the flags of third countries, using complex schemes to conceal owners, and poses significant environmental threats with significant economic costs to coastal countries and/or the international community due to the outdated and inadequate insurance of shadow fleet tankers.

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Algeciras (Spain), Aliaga (Turkey), Jurong Island (Singapore), Nemrut Limani Bay (Turkey), Novorossiysk (russia), Port Said (Egypt), Mumbai (India), Ust-Luga (russia), Jeddah (Saudi Arabia), Belokamenka (russia), Primorsk (russia), Tanjong Pagar (Singapore), Adabiya (Egypt), Vene-Balti (Estonia), Skaw (Denmark), Icdas (Turkey), Pulau Ayer Chawan (Singapore), Peetri (Estonia)