France's interception of an oil tanker suspected of being part of Russia's "shadow fleet" draws attention to how the vessels allegedly operate in order to escape Western sanctions. The French navy on ...

Russia, Iran and Venezuela have amassed an armada of aging tankers to move barrels around the world.

Today, an estimated 900 to 1,500 tankers – perhaps one in five in the world – are part of the global “shadow fleet”, defined by the International Maritime Organisation as “ships that are engaged in ...

The United States intends to sell sanctioned Venezuelan oil, a senior administration official said on Wednesday morning, as news broke of two U.S. Coast Guard seizures of connected oil tankers.