A growing number of tankers and other commercial vessels are being ditched by their owners.

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A growing number of tankers and other commercial vessels are being ditched by their owners.
Belgium seizes Russia shadow tanker
Belgian special forces have seized an oil tanker of the Russian shadow fleet in the marginal North Sea.
(Belgium's coastline is only 67 km. long.)
Russia has reportedly built up a flotilla of old oil tankers of opaque ownership to get around sanctions imposed by the European Union over
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This video explains how shadow fleets let countries like Iran and Russia keep selling oil even when much of the world is trying to cut them off. It shows how these ships hide behind fake or shifting identities, obscure ownership, weak insurance, switched-off transponders, and ship-to-ship transfers to move oil outside the normal rules of global trade.
As tankers carrying hundreds of millions of dollars worth of Russian oil pass through British waters, a Sky News expert warns we are heading
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