Didn't I wish for someone analysing recent re-flagging amongst #shadowfleet tankers? Well, took on the challenge and got my very first python script to work. Crunching 5 weeks of e-mail alerts (Nov 14 to Dec 18). And, surprise, surprise, the winner is.....Cameroon! #falseflags

An effect of Ukraine's drone attacks on #shadowfleet tankers? Most recent flag changes in this fleet were no longer to Cameroon, but Russia. Ukraine focused its attacks on #flagless. Would flying a Russian flag keep Ukraine from making those vessels a target? What do you think?

The #Blage apparently still broadcoasts Gambia as flag, though both #Equasis and #IMO list it as being expelled from this register together with countless other vessels on Nov 1. Any naval state authority has the right to board and inspect this clearly stateless vessel. #shadowfleet

Do we have a #DeepseaMining community here? Major win in #Norway today. Four more years with no #DSM development or even research in Norwegian waters. A major achievement of the Norwegian and global movement against this industry. More here: www.greenpeace.org/internationa...

Slapstick? #Shadowfleet tanker #Skywave (IMO932871699) just signalled flag change from Guinea-Bissau to land-locked Botswana, a country without IMO listed ship registry. Both, IMO and Euqasis missed its pitstop in G.-B., still listing it as Comoros (false). Why do they care flying a flag at all?

Report from #CREA #CenterForResearchOnEnergyAndCleanAir #ShadowFleet #Russia #FoC #FlagOfConvenience @maritimekiwi.bsky.social @michellewb.bsky.social @pa.nton.cx @maikmarahrens.bsky.social @mercoglianos.bsky.social @lloydslisted.bsky.social energyandcleanair.org/publication/...

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.

Ok...this alert I set up is flooding my inbox with flag changes for #shadowfleet tanker North Lake (#IMO9231468). Just a technical glitch at the ship's end? It was Palau before, St. Kitts & Nevis since Oct 1, 2025. It recently had a massive AIS gap, too. But that's a different story...

A #DanishNavy job - sanctioned #shadowfleet tanker #Bolu (#IMO9439539 ), showing odd manoeuvring west of Jutland as of now, #NUC at times, crossing subsea cables, changing flag from Barbados to Cameroon just today at 08:40UTC, acc. to Marine Traffic.

Another #shadowfleet gem: Sanctioned oil tanker Rhein (IMO9306562) hanging out in the Marmara Sea since Oct 10, navigational status changing from 'underway using engine' to 'underway by sail' to 'not under command'. Just a first officer with a lot of humour? @pa.nton.cx @auonsson.bsky.social

Sanctioned, 23 year old #shadowfleet tanker Furia (IMO9257802) apparently in distress on its way out of the Baltic, laden with up to 100,000t Russian crude oil. After a sharp U-turn in the Fehmarn Belt, now idle in Swedish waters, signalling to be 'not under command'. Let's keep fingers crossed.

#Shadowfleet new analysis - > 3 months after 8 nations pledged tougher controls of Russian oil transports in the Baltic, we checked the numbers: * traffic goes on unabated * no. of #falseflag vessels increasing * mean age now >18yrs PR (in German) lnkd.in/epJciW88 Data can be supplied on request

Dear #shadowfleet friends - what do you make of the odd behaviour of the #Qasr (IMO9402471 ) on its way to Baltic Russia? Going in circles, slowing down for no apparent reason. @windward-ai.bsky.social @michellewb.bsky.social @pa.nton.cx @vesselspotter.bsky.social @claudialanz.bsky.social

Hold the line - we can't have the Amazon fall (aka 'Tipping Point') youtu.be/LBaGHa2hJkw?...

Another false flagged #shadowfleet oil tanker entering the Baltic, the White Condor I (IMO9255244), falsely Aruba flagged. Passing Denmark's coastline in less than 3nm distance. Do stateless vessels enjoy the right of innocent passage, just the same as law abiding vessels? #Russiasanctions

Help me understand: Sanctioned #SwiftseaRider (IMO9318539) just changed flag from Comoros > Croatia acc. to Seasearcher. Marine Traffic, Equasis and GISIS still show Comoros. Croation Ship register is void for its IMO No. @pa.nton.cx @maritimekiwi.bsky.social @lloydslistdaily.bsky.social

Sanctioned tanker #Pushpa (IMO9332810), false flag of Malawi, stopped just south of Sicily. Likely laden with 100,000t+ of Russian crude oil. It is still at that position, now with navigational status 'Not under command'. Am I paranoid to be concerned? #shadowfleet #ukrainewar #oilfuelswar

@vesselspotter.bsky.social @pa.nton.cx @maritimekiwi.bsky.social You will remember the Pushpa...went undeterred through all European EEZs, contrary to the Sierra. It now stopped south of Sicily. Certainly to be watch.