London-based Barbados registry flags 43% of UK-sanctioned ships
The registry, which claims it is the world’s fastest-growing, has expanded rapidly in the past five months by taking on anonymously owned, elderly dark fleet ships solely deployed in Russian, Iranian or Venezuelan trades after they were kicked out of Panama, Gabon or Cook Islands registries
Barbados is the latest post-sanctions refuge for flag-hopping Sovcomflot tankers that have repeatedly reorganised and redomiciled fleet management and registered ownership