Russian Crude Oil Imports to the EU Embargo: Database of May 2024 Violations

13:30 14.06.2024
Russia

The Monitoring Group of BlackSeaNews
and the Black Sea Institute of Strategic Studies

The Monitoring Group of the Black Sea Institute of Strategic Studies and BlackSeaNews reports on the results of its own monitoring of violations of the embargo on seaborne imports of Russian crude oil into EU countries in May 2024 (see Table 1).

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In May 2024, 1 violation of the EU embargo on seaborne imports of Russian crude oil from the Black Sea was recorded.

It was involved the delivery of crude oil to a transshipment point in the Laconian Gulf off the coast of Greece. Shipowner from China performed this voyage.

In May 2024, a total of 157,327 tons of Russian crude oil were delivered to the EU in violation of the embargo, compared with 199,352 tons in April 2024.

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Table 1. Tankers that transported Russia’s crude oil in violation of the embargo from Russian ports on the Black Sea to EU countries in May 2024

Data on shipowners and operators — from www.equasis.org
The first column of the table shows the date of a vessel's passage from the Sea of Marmara through the Dardanelles to the Aegean Sea

#

Name

IMO

DWT

Flag

Year built

Port of departure

Actual Time of Departure

Port of destination

Estimated Time of Arrival

Shipowner

26/05 

ZAMBRA 

Crude oil tanker 

9175078 

157327 

Panama 

1999 

RU TAM TAMAN 

2024-05-20 17:44 

LAKONIKOS GULF 

2024-05-30 15:20

Ship manager/Commercial manager STELLAR OCEAN LTD Room 6, 17th Floor, Wellborne Commercial Centre, 8, Java Road, North Point, Hong Kong, China. 

Registered owner ZAMBRA SHIPPING GROUP LTD Care of Stellar Ocean Ltd , Room 6, 17th Floor, Wellborne Commercial Centre, 8, Java Road, North Point, Hong Kong, China. 

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This article has been prepared with the support of the European Union in Ukraine. The content of the article is the sole responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily reflect the position of the EU

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