Bad news for Modi govt: India’s close ally detains oil tanker linked to Russia’s shadow fleet, 100000 tonnes of Ural oil to…, country is…
According to many media sources, French officials have intercepted a tanker transporting Russian crude oil near the Atlantic coast en route to India.
The ship’s captain and first officer were among the crew members who were also taken into custody. France has declared that it will try the crude tanker’s captain for alleged concealment in February. According to reports, the Chinese national captain declined to assist French investigators. According to reports, the tanker was transporting crude oil for Nayara Energy to the Vadinar port in India.
Who arrested the tanker with ties to Russia?
France’s seizure of the ship is part of a new European plan to cut off funding that fuels Moscow’s military effort in Ukraine, French President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday at an EU gathering in Copenhagen.
Macron said, “We want to increase pressure on Russia to convince it to return to the negotiating table,” according to Al Jazeera. He went on to say, “We have now decided to take a step further by moving towards a policy of obstruction when we have suspicious ships in our waters that are involved in this trafficking.”
What geopolitical ramifications does the seizure have?
According to two traders with knowledge of shipping data, on September 20, the Russian state-owned Rosneft supplied 100,000 tonnes of Urals crude oil to the Boracay from Russia’s Primorsk port near Finland. The ship is headed to the Vadinar port in India, where Nayara Energy operates a refinery. The biggest oil corporation in Russia, Rosneft, is a vital supplier of oil to China and India. Nayara is 49% owned by Rosneft, which also supplies it with crude oil. According to media sources, Rosneft has not yet issued a statement.
Stopping the alleged tanker used by Russia’s “shadow fleet” is part of a new European campaign to stop revenue funding operations in Moscow’s war in Ukraine, French President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday. Macron said that it is still unclear if the ship was part of the drone invasion in Denmark last week, which resulted in the closure of Danish airports along the corridor connecting the North Sea and the Baltic Sea.
According to media sources, on Saturday, French naval commandos raided the western French town of Boracay. Due to concerns that it was involved in the shipment of Russian oil, the ship was already subject to sanctions from the UK and the European Union. The ship travelled roughly 50 nautical miles (90 kilometres) south of Copenhagen last week, when drone activity closed the city’s airports, according to MarineTraffic data. Later, after several nearby airports reported seeing drones, the ship was located farther off the western coast of Denmark.
According to reports, the Kremlin said Thursday that France’s seizure of the ship was “frenzy” and that it would cause problems for international energy transportation routes. “What if it’s not Russian oil?” Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for the Kremlin, asked reporters. What would happen if France were to cause major issues for all international energy sources? He said, “So I think it’s all part of this hysteria I mentioned before.”
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