HOUSTON (Reuters) – Two oil tankers owned and managed by Russia’s largest maritime and freight transport firm, Sovcomflot , which was blacklisted by the United States final week as a part of sanctions towards Russia, are rerouting from their Canadian destinations, in accordance with monitoring information and marine sources.
The tankers are the primary Russian-owned oil vessels to vary course after Canada this week ratcheted up strain on Russia for its invasion of Ukraine by shutting ports to Russian-owned ships and barring them from Canadian waters.
The Liberia-flagged tanker SCF Neva carrying crude oil modified course from Canada’s Saint John port on Thursday and is now headed to the Caribbean, sources and vessel information present.
The vessel loaded crude oil at Colombia’s Mamonal port in mid-February. After stopping at an oil storage terminal in St Eustatius it was resulting from proceed to the Port of St. John in New Brunswick, Canada, in accordance with Refinitiv Eikon information.
A refined merchandise tanker chartered by Suncor, SCF Ussuri, has slowed down on Thursday and is at the moment floating offshore after rerouting from its Montreal, Canada, vacation spot, in accordance with vessel information and sources.
The vessel loaded at New York on Feb. 24 and was resulting from arrive in Montreal on March 1.
“It’s extremely complicated for the place these ships go, whether or not they are going to be acquired or not and if ports will settle for them,” stated Dan Yergin, vice chairman of power analysis and consultancy IHS Markit.
Yergin added that as international locations impose formal and casual restrictions on Russian vessels, many is likely to be rerouted to Asia.
The Biden administration is contemplating following Canada in barring Russian ships from U.S. ports, a authorities official stated on Wednesday.
As the SCF Ussuri loaded refined product within the U.S. East Coast, it can’t return to the United States with out violating the Jones Act.
Russian-flagged ships signify a really small share of U.S. site visitors, however barring Russian cargo from the United States would have a dramatically bigger influence, the supply stated. It was not clear if the administration is critically contemplating that extra drastic step.
(Reporting by Marianna Parraga in Houston and Laura Sanicola in Washington; Editing by Kirsten Donovan and Lisa Shumaker)
