Russian tanker detained in Greece after breakdown

The Pegas oil tanker was detained in Greece after the imposition of sanctions by the European Union prohibiting Russian ships from entering European ports. The Greek Coast Guard stressed that the ship itself was detained,

In Greece, the Russian tanker Pegas, which was in the Aegean Sea, was detained due to restrictive measures against ships from RUSSIA. This is reported by The Washington Post, citing the Greek Coast Guard, and REUTERS, citing a source in the Greek Ministry of Shipping.

The detained tanker was carrying crude oil and had 19 crew members from Russia on board. The detention took place in the bay of Karystos near the island of Eubia in the Aegean Sea. The Greek Coast Guard noted that the detention concerns only the tanker itself, and not the cargo on it.

The Greek portal Protothema, without specifying the source of information, specifies that the relevant decision was made by the Office for Combating Money Laundering. According to the portal, due to a mechanical malfunction, the tanker was accompanied by a tugboat on its way to the Peloponnese, where the oil had to be reloaded into another tanker. However, due to unfavorable weather conditions near Cape Doro (Evia Island), the Russian tanker anchored near Karystos, writes Protothema.

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According to the Fleetmoon vessel tracking service, the Aframax class Pegas tanker was built in 2003, it has a length of 249 m and a width of 44 m, it is capable of carrying up to 61.9 thousand tons of cargo. The tanker, according to the information of the service, is registered in the port of Taganrog in the Rostov region, the vessel belongs to the Transmorflot company.

According to SPARK, the private company Transmorflot is registered in Taganrog, its HEAD is Andrey Beloglazov.

In early April, the tanker sailed from the Turkish port in the Sea of ​​Marmara, writes Fleetmoon, now it is still at anchorage near the island of Euboea. Until June 2020, the tanker sailed under the flag of Liberia under the name "Perun", it changed ownership in August of the same year, and the name - in mid-June last year.

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The detention of the ship is connected with the adoption by the European Union in early April of the fifth package of sanctions against Russia, they are designed to "increase pressure on the Russian government and economy, as well as limit the resources of the Kremlin for aggression." In particular, the measures included a ban for ships flying the Russian flag to enter the ports of the EU countries, exceptions are possible only for those ships that carry humanitarian aid, food and agricultural products.

Belgium, in particular, allowed Russian ships to enter its ports, subject to the availability of permission or the purchase, import or transportation to the European Union of oil, gas, as well as medical, pharmaceutical, agricultural and food products, including fertilizers and wheat.

Exceptions for the restrictive measure against ships from Russia were also approved in Romania. The country's authorities allowed Russian ships carrying oil, natural gas, copper, palladium, aluminum, iron ore, coal, titanium and nuclear fuel, as well as food, agricultural products and drugs, to continue entering ports.

In Russia, the dissemination of information about the oil industry was limited Society

In late March, the head of leading private Greek shipping group Angelicoussis, Maria Angelicoussis, said the conflict in Ukraine was having a "big impact" on tanker shipping, Reuters reported. “Ship owners do not dare to ship Russian oil or oil products <...>. There is self-sanctioning,” she said. Angelicoussis added that Angelicoussis will not carry Russian cargo due to the large proportion of the "ethical component".

First Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Belousov in mid-April accused Western countries of trying to isolate Russia with the "four rings" of the global blockade. “[The West is trying to] literally pull it out of world economic ties, thereby launching the processes of degradation and disintegration of our economic system,” he says. Belousov assured that it is impossible to isolate Russia, since its economy is the sixth largest in the world. “The events of the last month and a half clearly testify to this,” the Deputy Prime Minister emphasized.

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