Year: 2025 Language: English Author: Sean Woon, Joel Ong Genre: Guide, Research Paper Publisher: Centre for International Law (CIL) Edition: 1st Format: PDF Quality: eBook Pages count: 33 Description: Unsafe and uninsured tankers in the ‘dark fleet’ which facilitate the transfer of Western-sanctioned oil from Russia, Iran, and Venezuela pose increasingly grave threats to coastal States. These oil tankers frequently engage in unsafe and illegal practices including ship-to-ship (STS) transfers which significantly increase the risks of oil spills or collisions with other vessels. In addition, the owners of tankers in the dark fleet often have no liability insurance for oil pollution damage to coastal States. In drafting this Guide, the authors considered various ways in which an administration could collect information on such tankers to boost their maritime domain awareness, including the use of six open access platforms, and one paid subscription-based platform, Seasearcher by Lloyd’s List Intelligence (LLI). This Guide neither aims to provide an exhaustive list of platforms nor a review of one platform against another; the authors are platform-agnostic and no criticism is intended towards any specific platform. The authors also do not intend to endorse any particular platform by featuring them as illustrations in this Guide.
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Guide to Tracking Ships in the Dark Fleet
Language: English
Author: Sean Woon, Joel Ong
Genre: Guide, Research Paper
Publisher: Centre for International Law (CIL)
Edition: 1st
Format: PDF
Quality: eBook
Pages count: 33
Description: Unsafe and uninsured tankers in the ‘dark fleet’ which facilitate the transfer of Western-sanctioned oil from Russia, Iran, and Venezuela pose increasingly grave threats to coastal States. These oil tankers frequently engage in unsafe and illegal practices including ship-to-ship (STS) transfers which significantly increase the risks of oil spills or collisions with other vessels. In addition, the owners of tankers in the dark fleet often have no liability insurance for oil pollution damage to coastal States.
In drafting this Guide, the authors considered various ways in which an administration could collect information on such tankers to boost their maritime domain awareness, including the use of six open access platforms, and one paid subscription-based platform, Seasearcher by Lloyd’s List Intelligence (LLI).
This Guide neither aims to provide an exhaustive list of platforms nor a review of one platform against another; the authors are platform-agnostic and no criticism is intended towards any specific platform. The authors also do not intend to endorse any particular platform by featuring them as illustrations in this Guide.
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