Buyers from Asia and the Middle East lined up.
Russia's largest shipping company, one of the world's leaders in the field of marine transportation of liquefied gas, crude oil and petroleum products, Sovcomflot sold “about a dozen ships” to buyers in Asia and the Middle East to pay off Western banks under sanctions, according to The Wall Street Journal, citing sources familiar with the situation .
According to sources, Sovcomflot sold five tankers from Dubai's Koban Shipping and four gas carriers from Singapore's Eastern Pacific Shipping. Eastern Pacific has paid $ 700 million to the bank that became the owner of the ships.
GFR is also in talks with companies, including China Merchants Group, to sell other tankers, the newspaper said. According to them, the ultimate owners of a number of vessels for sale may be unknown for some time.
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Earlier it was reported that Norwegian Greenpeace activists have tried to block Russian oil supplies. Protesting against Russia's invasion of Ukraine, they chained themselves to a fuel tanker.
The issue of restricting energy exports from Russia has been actively debated in the EU since the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, and unanimity over what decision to make so far. no. Some countries have already begun to abandon exports from the aggressor country, others are trying to maintain relations with it. Mikhail Gonchar talks about the difficult situation in Europe in the article “Europe in Russia's energy trap: how to overcome dependence?”
