As part of a sweeping sanctions package announced on Friday the U.S. State Department targets around one percent of the global LNG fleet. The measures are aimed at sidelining Russia’s…
https://gcaptain.com/u-s-not-done-targeting-russian-lng-we-will-keep-tightening-the-screws/
By Malte Humpert (gCaptain) – Russia’s shadow fleet operation continues to expand and now includes the first apparent ship-to-ship transfer of liquefied natural gas (LNG) in an effort to obscure…
https://gcaptain.com/breaking-russia-expands-shadow-fleet-with-first-ship-to-ship-lng-transfer/
By Malte Humpert (gCaptain) – The U.S. Department of the Treasury announced broad sanctions against Russia’s burgeoning LNG shadow fleet. LNG carriers had begun calling at the sanctioned Arctic LNG…
https://gcaptain.com/u-s-targets-russias-lng-shadow-fleet-in-sweeping-new-sanctions-package/
More ships, vessel operators, and a ship’s captain have been sanctioned in a new round of U.S.Treasury sanctions targeting the Houthis and their Iranian enablers. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) says all were involved in the shipment of Iranian commodities, including oil and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), to Yemen and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on behalf of the network of Iran-based, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force (IRGC-QF)-backed Houthi financial official...
By Bloomberg News (Bloomberg) — Russia’s biggest producer of liquefied natural gas in June cut processing at its Arctic LNG 2 facility to the lowest level since February, after US sanctions…
https://gcaptain.com/russias-arctic-lng-2-production-hit-by-u-s-sanctions/
By Eleanor Thornber and Julian Lee (Bloomberg) –Russia’s first oil shipment of the year is traveling through the nation’s Northern Sea Route to China, with more vessels expected to follow…
https://gcaptain.com/western-sanctions-houthi-attacks-boost-appeal-of-russias-arctic-sea-route/
By Julian Lee (Bloomberg) — Another week, another gentle turning up of the heat by Group of Seven nations on the fleet of tankers moving Russian petroleum around the world, writes…
https://gcaptain.com/the-wests-squeeze-on-russian-tankers-gets-tighter/
By Malte Humpert (gCaptain) – After a three-month odyssey aboard Chinese heavy lift vessel Wei Xiao Tian Shi, two Russia-bound LNG modules are headed back to China. Two weeks after…
https://gcaptain.com/u-s-sanctions-send-russian-lng-modules-back-to-chinas-wison-yard/
The U.S. Department of State has announced sanctions on three United Arab Emirates (UAE) companies and eleven tankers over their involvement in the transportation of Iranian petroleum or petrochemical products….
https://gcaptain.com/u-s-sanctions-uae-companies-and-vessels-in-response-to-iran-nuclear-activities/
LONDON, June 25 (Reuters) – Sanctions on shipping companies are undermining safety at sea and pose dangers for trade as ship standards are impacted, the chief executive of sanctioned Russian shipping group Sovcomflot said. The European Union imposed…
https://gcaptain.com/russias-sovcomflot-says-western-sanctions-are-undermining-safety-at-sea/