The European Union (EU) plans to impose sanctions aimed at combating the Russian “shadow fleet” of tankers secretly carrying oil from Russia. Wrote American edition of Politico.
According to the publication, the document on the new restrictive measures is currently in the draft stage. In particular, the authors of the initiative want to ban tankers suspected of “fraud” and circumventing anti-Russian sanctions from anchoring in EU ports.
Thus, the alliance is trying to force Moscow to comply with the oil ceiling price.
Bloomberg in the second half of April WroteThat the club of insurers from the United States refused to serve the Indian company Gatik Ship Management, which has become the largest oil carrier from Russia, thereby inflicting a serious blow to the Russian “shadow” fleet.
enters into force on 5 December entry An agreement between the European Union, the G7 countries (England, Germany, Italy, Canada, France, Japan and the USA) and Australia on the ceiling price of Russian oil of $60 per barrel. from February 5 acquired US$100 per barrel price cap for Russian petroleum products sold at a higher price than crude oil (e.g. diesel and kerosene). For discount traders (for example, for naphtha and fuel oil), the ceiling was $45.