The investigation of the Danish Danwatch group and the Norwegian public broadcaster NRK found that at least 76 oil tankers from the Russian shadow fleet It was flowing through NATO waters at Baltic Sea Thanks to false safety clearances. These certificates were allegedly issued by the Norwegian company Ro Marine, which so It truly belonged to a Russian. – was uploaded to the Danwatch portal.
As added, insurance certificates were issued under a 2016 licence from the Norwegian Financial Supervisory Authority (FSA), which besides proved false.
– I've never seen it so systematic before. There have been isolated cases of forgery, but not on specified a scale. This completely undermines the strategy – so she commented prof. of Maritime Law Kristina Siig from the University of South Denmark.
Russian fleet of shadows. Forgery enabled ships to swim in the Baltic Sea
The Danish Maritime Office informs that there are “problems with checking Ro Marine certificates”. The Copenhagen authorities are now establishing under which circumstantial flags the safety certificates were used. It was added that vessels may be subject to sanctions.
In general, Danwatch and NRK identified at least 255 tankers and tankersfor which Ro Marine issued insurance certificates. According to Lloyd’s Letter Intelligence at least 76 of them belong to the Russian shadow fleetwhich flow and flow from the Baltic Sea through Danish waters.
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In addition to registration in the Norwegian business register, nothing else indicates that Ro Marine exists at all. The form website is supported from Saint Petersburg, and its logos and graphics are made by a Russian plan agency
There is only 1 individual in the Ro Marine structures. He is simply a board associate with the citizenship of Bulgaria. The company is to be owned by 41-year-old Andrei Uchalina, who worked in the Norwegian insurance sector for many years, but presently lives in St. Petersburg.
A global shadow fleet. US and EU sanctions
Since the end of last year over a 1000 container ships forming the alleged fleet of shadows have been sanctioned by the West, and the ships that are not on the sanctioning lists compete with each another Russia, Iran and Venezuela, as reported by the global Maritime Organisation, the UN agenda.
Following further sanctions by the United States and the European Union on tankers carrying Russian oil, the fleet of available vessels shrunk significantly.
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The global tanker fleet consists of of about 14,000 ships, including 3,000 oil tankers and 11,000 for the transport of products and chemicals. As of the end of last year, the number of tankers sanctioned by the US, the EU and the G7 group She's over a thousand.
S&P Global marketplace Intelligence, a financial analyst, revealed in its February study that over 800 of them have no confirmed insurance. Moreover, the average age of ships subject to sanctions is 21 years, which means that it is about 8 years higher than the planet average.
