#COSCO TRACKING BRASIL OFFLINE#

Three of the ships, including a VLCC, are floating off China, with two ships off Brazil and one near Qatar. 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm (CE unlocking on the next business day) Address: COSCO SHIPPING Lines (Brazil) Rua Guaia, 66 20th floor Conjunto 2001. The six ships carrying some oil have been identified based on the ship-tracking data showing their draught, or how deep the vessels sits in the water.Īn additional six COSCO Dalian ships are idled, the ship tracking data showed.

#COSCO TRACKING BRASIL OFFLINE#

Nine of the 14 ships offline are VLCCs, according to the ship-tracking data. 1.Ī COSCO Shipping Energy official that handles media inquiries declined to comment when contacted by telephone. surveillance of suspect cargoes,” he said.ĬOSCO Dalian and its subsidiaries own 43 oil tankers, including 26 very large crude carriers (VLCCs), according to two disclosure documents issued by COSCO Dalian’s parent company, COSCO Shipping Energy Transportation Co, on Oct. It’s not ideal for ship safety and undoubtedly there will be increased U.S. “Turning off transponders is a tried and tested tactic that the Iranians have used before, creating a fleet of ghost ships that cannot be tracked. ratcheting up the sanctions while the Iranians (and their Chinese or other buyers) find novel ways to circumvent these” including frequent ownership changes, complex corporate structures and shutting off the AIS transponders, said Bruno Vickers, the senior director for Asia at political risk group GPW in Singapore. “It is becoming a cat-and-mouse game, with the U.S. However, the transponders are often shut off to conceal a ship’s location when illicit activities occur. The devices can be turned off manually by a ship’s crew for legitimate reasons such as avoiding detection in piracy or high-risk zones. The International Maritime Organization (IMO) requires AIS transceivers be fitted to commercial and passenger vessels for safety and transparency purposes. 7, a total of 14 COSCO Dalian ships, six of which carry some oil, stopped sending location data from their automatic identification system (AIS), ship tracking data on Refinitiv Eikon showed.

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - About one-third of the oil tankers owned by COSCO Shipping Tanker (Dalian) have shut off their ship-tracking transponders since the United States imposed sanctions on the company for allegedly shipping Iranian crude, shipping data showed.įrom Sept.

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