Somebody just asked What if a ship is de-registered or disclassed at sea? All reputable flag states keep the Class Society informed & usually a 40-day notice of intent to withdraw certificates is given, allowing the owner time to apply for a new flag & arrange a visit to a port/anchorage for survey

Change of Flag/Name is always done in port not only for safety reasons, but also because the flag state or its delegated authority (ie class society) must attend & carry out onboard surveys/inspections (eg Load Line, SOLAS safety equipment) so as to reissue valid Class Certificate & statutory certs

The dark fleet is not a vessel problem. It is a network problem. AIS manipulation, false flags, and shell ownership are coordinated across fleets to move sanctioned oil at scale. Vessel-by-vessel monitoring misses the system behind the activity. windward.ai/blog/what-is...

Similar trend in terms of class-hopping. After an initial surge to Indian Register (led by the Sovcomflot tanker fleet), many transferred again to Russian Register even though it was expelled from the International Association of Class Societies (IACS) when Lloyds Register was in the Chair.

Flag-hopping shadow fleet starts to settle in Russia ▶️Russia’s ship register has increased in size by 40% since the invasion of Ukraine ▶️Shift towards Russia’s flag comes as EU is adding pressure on ship registers and seeking to board vessels www.lloydslist.com/articles/202...

Hey @jd-vance-1.bsky.social, can you please tell us more about how free speech is threatened in Europe?

Just in: The shadows of Russia’s maritime operations reveal a strategic twist! 🚢 Explore how Moran Security is embedding itself in oil tankers once meant to evade sanctions. Details here: russiamaritimewatch.wixsite.com/home/post/ru...

Flag-hopping shadow fleet starts to settle in Russia ▶️Shadow fleet ships are ending flag hopping in favour of direct Russian registration ▶️Russia’s ship register has increased in size by 40% since the invasion of Ukraine www.lloydslist.com/articles/202...

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I hope, it was not posted before: the new sanction list for 40 tankers eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dec/2025... @pa.nton.cx @vesselspotter.bsky.social @claudialanz.bsky.social

Here's the replay of yesterday's @brookings.edu event on Russia sanctions. The event kicked off with opening remarks by @whitehouse.senate.gov and featured a keynote by 2024 Nobel @simonhrjohnson.bsky.social on lessons to learn from four years of Russia sanctions... www.brookings.edu/events/asses...

🔎🇷🇺⛽️ Change in behaviour of Russian shadow fleet tankers: the beginning of a downgraded mode? Since the start of what could be described as the "Tanker War II", a clear change has been observed in the navigation habits of Russian tankers belonging to the shadow fleet. 🧵

Swedish civil conscription at large will be activated from January 2026, with youth being called in to receive lengthy training in prioritized civil defence areas. Goal is 18,000 civil conscripts by 2035 (mostly emergency services). More here: www.regeringen.se/pressmeddela...

In Schweden geht's bei Verteidigung nicht nur ums Militär, sondern genauso um den Zivilschutz. Die dazu gehörige Zivildienstpflicht (nicht zu verwechseln mit dem deutschen Ersatzdienst) wird nun deutlich ausgeweitet

RF Navy Northern Fleet Udaloy I-class destroyer conducted a southbound transit of the Great Belt today - likely Severomorsk, which departed port (Severomorsk) on 5 December

Something is going on with false flagged vessel “CHARIOT TIDE”. Currently at anchor in German EEZ en route to Baltic. First false Gambia flagged. Now false Mozambique. New false certificate found on a “marinegov”-group website.

Stærkt arbejde af @jakobbohr.bsky.social ! Blandt de uniformerede folk ombord på russiske skyggeflåde skibe har han ID på en tidligere Speznats-leder. Endnu et stærkt indicie på, at skyggeflåden også bliver brugt til militære formål. Læs med her👇🏻 danwatch.dk/tidligere-sp...

Has #DE #Germany started naming vessels to satisfy #Trump? @sarahkirchberger.bsky.social @sophiewitte.bsky.social @leif-11.bsky.social

Beşiktaş Denizcilik,a Turkish owner of the Mersin oil tanker damaged near Senegal,is ceasing all Russia-related voyages,-Reuters "The security situation in the region has escalated considerably.After a thorough assessment,we’ve concluded that the risks posed to our vessels have become untenable

Former US military lawyers speak out: "The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both." Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes 1/2

❗️"- This is VIRAT. Help needed! Drone attack! Mayday!" The 🇷🇺Russian crew of the tanker VIRAT reports a drone attack on the open frequency. We remind you that the tankers VIRAT and KAIROS were subjected to "external impact" in the Black Sea.

🔥 Update: Tanker of the Russian shadow fleet in the Black Sea.

Damn it, Garry Kasparov. 💬"This is the best show Putin could not even dream of. It's not about how much weaponry and ammunition you have. It's about whether you are ready to fight and die. Oh, great, you have a Canadian brigade in Latvia. What is the order for this brigade? Will they open fire

Yeah....after loitering in the Bay of Biscay for a few days, on its way to Russian Baltic ports, the #shadowfleet tanker #Runa now continued its journey, having managed tonight to re-flag from its false Benin flag to Cameroon - the highest risk flag registry acc. to both #ParisMoU and #TokyoMoU.

#Russia #ShadowFleet #Tanker delayed discharge/offload in #India port due to #Insurance holdup Tiger 6 #Tiger6 #Maritime #Shipping #Baird #BaIrdMaritime #Reuters www.bairdmaritime.com/shipping/tan...

Benin alerting through IMO: All tankers fly the flag of Benin illegally. Four tankers previously boarded, including BORACAY.

Now that The Gambia deregistered all their shadow fleet tankers, the question is: Will Sierra Leone follow this path or did they already choose sides with Russia already? How can we continue allow their flag registry to operate on EU soil (Limassol, Cyprus)?

WARRIOR SPIRIT MMSI 352005863 or 620800240 Ship Name WARRIOR SPIRIT IMO Number 9293129 Callsign 3E9043 or D6A4240 Flag Panama or Comoros (Equasis: PAN) Operator Arabic International Group Ltd Perhaps P And I Club: West of England Inbound the Sound, at the moment West of Læsø

German Skynex in Ukraine 🇩🇪🇺🇦

Actor 2 (Medium confidence: ties to Turkey) New: merchantmarinehonduras.com maritimezanzibar.com mongoliashipregistry.org apmb-class.com imsaq.org cameroonshipregistry.com

For a couple of hours this evening, I have been digging up a load of fraudulent "maritime administration" websites: Actor 1 (Low confidence: ties to Turkey) Previously discovered: zambshipadmin.org zambmaritime.org New: haiti-shipreg.com btn-shipreg.com chad-maradmin.org alliance-scs.org

Gambia to IMO: Deregistration of sanctioned vessels Expect a surge in false flagged vessels in the next 3 months!

Never really looked for it before, but Novorossiysk has a good amount of GPS interference show up daily in the overnight hours. Here is Marine Traffic on the night of November 13.

The Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) has released its monthly report Russian fossil fuel exports & sanctions October 2025 ⤵️

10.11.2025: LNG tanker Yakov Gakkel is currently delivering 172,000 m³ of LNG from Sabetta (Yamal LNG), shitnya, to Rotterdam Maasvlakte, Netherlands 🇳🇱. #BloodGas #StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦

Sanctions working? #Russia #shadowfleet vessels seems to be anchored or drifting left and right gcaptain.com/two-tankers-...

Boracay was highest-profile falsely flagged tanker we've seen so far. (~62% of @windward-ai.bsky.social' s dark fleet over 20kdwt is falsely flagged or unknown). Yet despite headlines & fact Benin-flagged tanker is unregulated, insurance invalidated etc, discharged cargo at Vadinar, India 1/11

A long read, but an important one as the role of insurance and insurers in enabling Russian sanctions evasion is gaining more attention: www.reuters.com/investigatio...

🇬🇷❌ Greek tanker companies, which the Brookings Institution estimates transport a third of Russian oil, have begun to refuse to work with Russian oil companies because of Trump's sanctions, — Reuters.

Hi, are there any indications that the Zambia Shipping administration / International register exist? zambshipadmin.org Zambshipping? Domain: zambshipadmin.org Registered On: 2025-09-06 But: The online CLC-verification works :-) No Data in the IMO Database. Thank you! @pa.nton.cx

another day, another fraudulent registry and another falsely flagged ship. Welcome Botswana! sanctioned LPG tanker Meda now at a Houthi-occupied port in Yemen, fourth flag change broadcast since 26/9, that's one a week, quite impressive in all the wrong ways

Hi all, the official documents 19th sanction package eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten... List of sanctioned tanker (24.10.2025) eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten... Entities: shipping registry: 680. Aruba; 681. Curaçao; 682. Sint-Maarten

Starboard Maritime Intelligence has identified a false-flagged VLCC — NOVA (#IMO9283801) — transiting west through the Malacca Strait. It is now operating as ARROW (#IMO9212876), scrapped in 2018 as S MISTRAL. The stolen identity and AIS spoofing indicate sanctions evasion.

Good Morning, I think, the first tanker from Mozambique on the way to the Talin_for_orders. Pacific Runner 9285859. Still in Noth Sea, north of the frisian islands. Next marine.gov? @pa.nton.cx @michellewb.bsky.social www.lloydslist.com/LL1154761/Mo...

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