To sustain its oil exports, Russia has been drawing on a network of old tankers it sources from private sellers around the ...

An armada of old tanker ships has sprung up to move sanctioned Russian and Iranian oil, putting sailors in peril and threatening environmental catastrophes. At the center of this trade is a ...

But Elisabeth Braw, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council who has written several articles on the shadow fleet, said the ships were “rickety old tankers” that lacked several characteristics ...

It is noted that this old tanker is part of Russia's shadow fleet and is the focus of the Finnish investigation. The shadow fleet is a group of old and often poorly maintained ships used by Russia to ...