Libya’s growing fuel-smuggling empire starts to shift from tankers to containers
- UN report finds smugglers diverting subsidised fuel with near‑total impunity as tankers and containers move uninspected through key ports
- Tanker operations shifting into innovative containerised trades with operators often unaware they are complicit
- Shell companies, AIS dark activity and offshore transfers used to disguise Libyan origins before reaching buyers across Europe, Africa and beyond
A UN investigation has uncovered a rapidly expanding Libyan fuel‑smuggling empire, shifting from tankers into containerised flexi‑tanks that are misdeclared as paint solvent or metal scrap
