Berlin/Madrid/The Swedish Coast Guard, together with the Police, boarded the ship this Sunday Jin Huian oil tanker suspected of sailing under a false Syrian flag and belonging to the shadow fleet that Russia uses to evade international sanctions.
The Swedish Minister of Civil Defense, Carl-Oskar Bohlin, noted in a message on the social network X that it is “another ship suspected of being part of the Russian shadow fleet.”
According to a Coast Guard statement, the tanker, which was apparently sailing without cargo, was boarded around 12:00 GMT south of Trelleborg while sailing towards the Baltic Sea.
The Coast Guard had been following the ship, 182 meters long and flying the Syrian flag, for some time.
The Coast Guard had been following the ship, 182 meters long and flying the Syrian flag, for some time.
“There are several indicators that make the ship of interest, including its inclusion on several sanctions lists, such as those of the European Union and the United Kingdom,” the Swedish state agency indicated.
Today’s intervention is the fifth of its kind and the third focused specifically on navigability issues, which require investigation, the Coast Guard explained.
Meanwhile, the tanker Universalwhich left Russia and was initially expected to arrive in Cuba with its cargo of some 300,000 barrels of diesel, but which changed course suddenly A week and a half ago, it is still in the middle of the Atlantic, as seen on the Marine Traffic platform, in an apparent waiting position.
This maneuver increased uncertainty on the Island, after the partial relief that came with the arrival, on March 31, of the Anatoly Kolodkinwhich he downloaded in Matanzas about 730,000 barrels of crude oilaround 100,000 tons. That shipment gave a breath of oxygen to the regime for a few weeks, but it did not resolve the national energy asphyxiation.
