{"id":33064,"date":"2023-03-20T21:12:27","date_gmt":"2023-03-20T18:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/cameroons-role-in-the-fast-growing-dark-fleet-exposed\/33064\/"},"modified":"2023-03-20T21:12:27","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T18:12:27","slug":"cameroons-role-in-the-fast-growing-dark-fleet-exposed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/cameroons-role-in-the-fast-growing-dark-fleet-exposed\/33064\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameroon\u2019s role in the fast-growing dark fleet exposed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content entry clearfix\">\n<div class=\"mailmunch-forms-before-post\" style=\"display: none !important;\"><\/div>\n<p>S&amp;P Global Market Intelligence has become the latest firm to put a figure on the scale of the so-called dark fleet, the growing list of ships operating in contravention of sanctions in place against countries such as Iran, Venezuela and Russia.<\/p>\n<p>The New York-based company, one of the largest shipping data providers in the world, estimates there are 443 tankers above 10,000 dwt operating within the Russian shadow fleet.<\/p>\n<p><em>Splash<\/em>\u2019s own investigation, based on data from exactly one month ago, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/splash247.com\/splash-investigation-pinpoints-the-true-scale-of-the-shadow-tanker-fleet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">put the number at 421 ships<\/a><\/span>, while Lloyd\u2019s List Intelligence suggested the number was 440 ships as of March 10.<\/p>\n<p>According to S&amp;P Global Market Intelligence, the number of vessels with a wider potential for risk in regard to Russian sanctions is estimated to be 1,900. From these 1,900 ships the majority are Greek-owned.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mailmunch-forms-in-post-middle\" style=\"display: none !important;\"><\/div>\n<p>Contained in the white paper published today by S&amp;P Global Market Intelligence is a focus on the flag of Cameroon, which has become an important enabler of moving sanctioned cargoes.<\/p>\n<p>Out of the 43 tankers currently registered with Cameroon only three of them have a fully documented and transparent ownership structure, according to S&amp;P Global Market Intelligence. In 2021 and 2022 the number of tankers moving under the country\u2019s flag doubled in size and continues to grow in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince the Russian invasion of Ukraine, vessels are moving to the Cameroon flag in the hope that suspicious vessel practices, including membership of a shadow fleet, would not be regularly scrutinised or inspected,\u201d the white paper stated.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mailmunch-forms-after-post\" style=\"display: none !important;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class=\"stream-item-size\" style=\"\">\n\t    <!-- \/91333190\/SPLASH247_*_Splash247_Article_*_Strip_Slot_*_2 --><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1_95_0_1_2\">\n<script>\ngoogletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1_95_0_1_2'); });\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>splash247<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>S&amp;P Global Market Intelligence has become the latest firm to put a figure on the scale of the so-called dark fleet, the growing list of ships operating in contravention of sanctions in place against countries such as Iran, Venezuela and Russia. The New York-based company, one of the largest shipping data providers in the world, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tanker-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/33065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}