Shadow fleet oil tankers pose environmental catastrophe risk, FT investigation finds

Potential environmental disaster affecting coastal communities and ecosystems in under-resourced nations with limited response capacity.

Across the world's most vulnerable coastlines, a fleet of aging, under-insured oil tankers moves Russian crude through the shadows of international sanctions — not merely evading geopolitical consequence, but distributing catastrophic environmental risk to nations least equipped to bear it. More than half of these vessels operate in conditions that make a major spill not a remote possibility but a statistical likelihood accumulating with every voyage and every storm season. The burden falls, as it so often does, on communities that had no hand in creating the system — fishing villages, coastal

Shadow fleet oil tankers pose environmental catastrophe risk, FT investigation finds

Cobertura Relacionada

Receba o Register no seu e-mail