UK-sanctioned, falsely flagged tanker laden with Russian crude transits English Channel
Aframax tanker is now falsely signalling it is flying the flag of Netherlands Antilles, which does not provide an international register, joining two other US-sanctioned LPG carriers that have been deflagged in the past two months for breaching Western sanctions by wrongly broadcasting their status with the Caribbean island
Yi Meng Shan, formerly Attica, abruptly reversed a course that originally indicated the tanker taking a route around Britain to avoid the channel, where the coast guard is targeting shadow fleet tankers with suspect or dubious marine insurance
