{"id":37043,"date":"2024-10-02T17:27:50","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T21:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=37043"},"modified":"2024-10-02T17:27:50","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T21:27:50","slug":"zombie-vessel-turns-up-at-chinese-port-posing-as-retired-ship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=37043","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Zombie vessel\u2019 turns up at Chinese port, posing as retired ship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1rugt4.img?w=534&amp;h=356&amp;m=4&amp;q=100\" alt=\"\" width=\"333\" height=\"222\" \/><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">An oil tanker appeared at a Chinese port carrying crude last week despite the ship having been retired nearly three years ago. The ship appears to be a \u201czombie vessel,\u201d taking on the identity of an actual ship that is no longer in service in an attempt to evade economic sanctions, according to a report [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/energy-and-environment\/3171433\/zombie-vessel-chinese-port\/?utm_source=msn&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=msn_feed\">\u2018Zombie vessel\u2019 turns up at Chinese port, posing as retired ship<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>fta:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/russia\/\" target=\"_blank\">Russia<\/a>\u00a0has been accused of using a massive \u201cshadow fleet\u201d filled with these vessels to get around European Union sanctions amid the yearslong war in Ukraine. In April,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/sweden\/\" target=\"_blank\">Swedish<\/a>\u00a0military officials accused Russia of deploying an estimated 1,400 in the Baltic Sea to disguise\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/energy-and-environment\/\" target=\"_blank\">oil exports<\/a>\u00a0and engage in espionage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>1400 shadow tankers?  how many tankers are out there?  Gemini sez ~7500.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An oil tanker appeared at a Chinese port carrying crude last week&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[157,150,564],"class_list":["post-37043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-boat-ish","tag-china","tag-shipping","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37043"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37045,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37043\/revisions\/37045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}