Russia May Be Building A “Shadow Fleet” For LNG Transport

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A clever strategy by the Russians, so needs more clever workarounds to combat it. This is why they've dodged many of the sanctions already in place

A theory with nothing to back it up.

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[..]According to journalists, another "shadow fleet" has already been used to transport oil.

[..]The US news outlet Bloomberg reports, that in the last three months, according to global shipping database Equasis, at least eight vessels have been taken over by little-known firms in Dubai. Four of these - North Air, North Mountain, North Sky, and North Way - are tankers that received permission from Moscow to sail in the waters of the Northern Sea Route (NSR) this summer.
Bloomberg noted that it has been unable to directly link these vessels to major Russian entities, but, according to the publication, the details are strikingly similar to maneuvers to create a shadow oil fleet.
Journalists spoke to the founder of the American Arctic Institute, Malte Humpert, who said that several signs point to the Kremlin's efforts to create a shadow fleet, including the transfer of the tankers to a Dubai company, the purchase of old ships and the issuance of a record number of permits along the Northern Sea Route.
Most of the Russian LNG plants are located in the Arctic region. Yamal LNG, for example, is one of the major ones.

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A clever strategy by the Russians, so needs more clever workarounds to combat it. This is why they've dodged many of the sanctions already in place