The Turkish company Beks Ship Management and Trading Joint Stock Company, which operates 44 large vessels, most of which are tankers, changed the names of its ships after included in the UK sanctions list. This was reported by Andriy Klimenko, the head of the monitoring group of sanctions and freedom of navigation of the Institute of Black Sea Strategic Studies, on his Facebook page.
According to Klimenko, while swimming from the Black Sea with Russian oil and petroleum products, the company stopped for a week near Istanbul in the Marble Sea and stopped their identification on the radars of marine search engines. This was done to remove their names and the history of visits to the ports of the Russian Federation.
"After that, they appear in the same places under new names, under the flags of other countries and with the pure history of ports, to avoid refusal of British insurance and expulsion from ports of other countries," he explained. After a few days, the vessels already have another owner - another false company.
In Turkey, the Oil Terminal in the city of Diertol on the southern coast of the country has stopped operations with Russian oil and petroleum products because of the threat of sanctions. This decisive action was caused by serious restrictions on sanctions.
