RUSSIAN oil is being sold in India, which now ranks as its second biggest buyer after China, reports Bloomberg.
China and India now take nearly half of all the crude shipped from russian ports, with a steady stream of tankers heading around Europe and through the Suez Canal from the Baltic and Arctic seas.
The European Union has agreed to a sixth set of sanctions in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, including a ban on imports of the country's crude by sea, which will come into effect in December.
The number of cargoes shipped from Russian ports fell by four to 34 in the week to June 10 compared with the previous seven days. Fewer ships departed from ports in the Black Sea and the Pacific, while the numbers of shipments from the Baltic remained unchanged.
All of the cargoes scheduled from Black Sea port of Novorossiysk during the week loaded within two days of the dates on loading programmes seen by Bloomberg.
Bloomberg uses commercial ship-tracking data to monitor vessels. Ships can avoid detection by turning off on-board transponders, but there is no evidence yet that this is being done.
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China and India now take nearly half of all the crude shipped from russian ports, with a steady stream of tankers heading around Europe and through the Suez Canal from the Baltic and Arctic seas.
The European Union has agreed to a sixth set of sanctions in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, including a ban on imports of the country's crude by sea, which will come into effect in December.
The number of cargoes shipped from Russian ports fell by four to 34 in the week to June 10 compared with the previous seven days. Fewer ships departed from ports in the Black Sea and the Pacific, while the numbers of shipments from the Baltic remained unchanged.
All of the cargoes scheduled from Black Sea port of Novorossiysk during the week loaded within two days of the dates on loading programmes seen by Bloomberg.
Bloomberg uses commercial ship-tracking data to monitor vessels. Ships can avoid detection by turning off on-board transponders, but there is no evidence yet that this is being done.
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