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ELEPHANT

Shadow fleet · Person of interest · Sanctioned entity
TypeVessel[sources]
NameELEPHANT[sources]
Build Date[sources]
Call SignXVJF7[sources]
DescriptionFrom July 20, 2025, the EU imposed sanctions on a tanker for transporting crude oil/petroleum products that originate in russia or are exported from russia using irregular and high-risk shipping practices as set out in the International Maritime Organization General Assembly resolution A.1192 (33). · In February 2023, the tanker was detained in Ferrol (Spain) under the Paris Memorandum of Understanding on Port State Control after authorities found ‘technical and documentary deficiencies’ during an inspection in the northwestern port of Ferrol. Spain has fined Vietnamese operator Hung Phat Maritime Trading EUR 120 thousand for a ship-to-ship transshipment operation that took place outside the port boundaries but in Spanish territorial waters. · In February-March 2024, the tanker transported russian oil from the russian port of Novorossiysk in the Black sea to the port of Zhoushan (China). · In June 2025, Canada imposed sanctions on the vessel. · In May-June 2024, the tanker transported russian oil from the russian port of Ust-Luga in the Baltic Sea to the port of Sikka (India). · 4 more...[sources]
FlagVietnam[sources]
IMO NumberIMO9374868[sources]
MMSI574005510[sources]
Past FlagsPanama · Singapore[sources]
Previous nameMasteri · Ocean Crown[sources]
Tonnage108943[sources]
TypeCrude Oil Tanker · Oil Tanker[sources]
Source linkfinancialpost.com · hp-shipping.vn · kse.ua · mfame.guru · parismou.org · 9 more...[sources]
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Shipping sanctions: a specified ship is prohibited from being provided with access to or having its master or pilot cause it to enter a port in the UK, may have its registration on the UK Ship Register terminated, and a master or pilot of a specified ship may be given a port barring direction, a detention direction, and a port entry direction or a movement direction.

UK FCDO Sanctions List,

Transporting russian crude oil/oil products in violation of other restrictions

Ukraine War and Sanctions,

Transportation of fossil fuels

Ukraine War and Sanctions,

Relationships

Data sources

Ukraine War and Sanctions4,315

Sponsors and accomplices of Russian armed aggression against Ukraine.

Ukraine · GUR

UK FCDO Sanctions List5,562

UK sanctions collated by the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

United Kingdom · FCDO


Source data IDs: ua-ws-7ec0a53947a38cacd7761b20078f73da5ee5c615 · gb-fcdo-rus2518 · ua-ws-4bfd81c36965debbd8a36242e87fb6fa507d8927

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